the great gatsby quotes?

Question

what quotes in the great gatsby reflect the dreams and desires of jay gatsby? page numbers would be great, too.
THanks

Answer 1

you should read the book - its actually quite good. but in the sport of answering your questions - go to the end of the book - read the last chapter. look for the paragrpahs re the "green light" These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light. This past functions as the source of their ideas about the future (epitomized by Gatsby’s desire to re-create 1917 in his affair with Daisy) and they cannot escape it as they continue to struggle to transform their dreams into reality. While they never lose their optimism (“tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . .”), they expend all of their energy in pursuit of a goal that moves ever farther away. This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself. Nick’s words register neither blind approval nor cynical disillusionment but rather the respectful melancholy that he ultimately brings to his study of Gatsby’s life.

Answer 2

There is one quote that I think nails it. Nick is telling Gatsby that you can't go back and reclaim the past. He has been hearing about Gatsby and Daisy falling in love many years before, when they were very young and she was not married. When Nick tells him that he can't go back, Gatsby says "Of course you can."

I don't remember it exactly, but you can find it in the book.

It shows that Gatsby has assumed something to be true that is not, and that everything he has done, everything he has accomplished has been for the purpose of doing something that it is impossible to do.

While Gatsby appears to have accomplishesd the impossible by coming from nothing and making such a fortune, none of it matters, because the whole reason for it is based on a false understanding of the universe.

The "Old sport" quote is great. Somebody already mentioned it. It uses a phrase that was used by young, wealthy society men in a time that was already past, and it was a British phrase that sounded affected in an American of the wrong era. Againl, Gatsby is reaching back for a time and place that are gone, if they ever existed at all.

Answer 3

Dude there is such a thing as sparknotes.com do your own homework it helps.

Answer 4

http://www.gatsbyquotes.com/

Answer 5

"Old sport"