What's the Reference: Greek Edition
His overconfidence was his Achilles heel.
Who is Achilles?
There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
What is The Great Gatsby?
She was a modern-day Einstein.
Who is Einstein?
She bore the weight of her failure like Atlas holding up the sky.
Who is Atlas?
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
What is Macbeth?
She's in her Marie Antoinette era.
Who was Marie Antoninette?
He flew too close to the sun.
Who is Icarus?
One mornin’ soon, now, de angel wid de sword is gointuh stop by here. De day and de hour is hid from me, but it won’t be long.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
They’re acting like it’s the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Everything she touches turns to gold.
Who is Midas?
Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
That idea went over like the Hindenburg.
She has a face that would launch a thousand ships.
Who is Helen of Troy?
If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Finally facing my Waterloo.