The Great Gatsby — Vocabulary
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Edited)

"Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. "He reads deep books with long words in them."p.13.1alternate pages5 more

...and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.p.124.4alternate pages5 more

For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise. ... With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.p.66.1alternate pages7 more

Eluding Jordan's undergraduate, who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.p.50.9alternate pages4 more

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning —p.180.9alternate pages4 more

Tom talked incessantly,p.135.6alternate pages8 more

Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.p.2.6alternate pages5 more

[Gatsby] knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them,p.98.9alternate pages6 more

About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed - he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car.p.156.9alternate pages3 more

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.p.176.4alternate pages1 more

[Nick describing his first impression of Gatsby:]  It was one of those rare smiles ... [that] concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.p.48.5alternate pages1 more

So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York — or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car.p.26.9alternate pages3 more

[T]here are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay.... [A] more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two,p.5.3alternate pages

I told him that all arrangements had been deferred until he came.p.168.3alternate pages1 more

So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York — or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car. Tom deferred that much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train.p.26.9alternate pages1 more

I saw that for some reason of his own he was determined not to come, so I stood up.p.172.1alternate pages5 more

Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.p.20.8alternate pages5 more

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." ... In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, ...p.1.4alternate pages1 more

And it was from Cody that he inherited money — a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it. ... He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.p.101.1alternate pages2 more

After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby — one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved.p.169.8alternate pages1 more