The Great Gatsby
“Her voice was full of ________”
Money
“They seemed to be staring at the ______, but their eyes were watching ____.”
dark- God
“Better a witty _____ than a foolish wit.”
fool
“The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny _________.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike.
flames
“You can’t fly _______ on rainy days.”
kites
“I hope she'll be a ________ -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a _______ little _______.”
fool- beautiful- fool
“She knew now that _________ did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a ________.”
marriage- woman
“If _______ be the food of love, ____ on.”
music- play
“The _________: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like ______, dying through life”
nobodies- rabbits
“I oscillate between ______ and _______ for this world”
hope- despair
“They were ________ people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their ________ or their vast ___________or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
careless- money- carelessness
“She stood there until something fell off the ______ inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and __________. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her ______ over.”
shelf- shattered- dreams
“If this were played upon a _____ now, I could condemn it as an improbable ______.”
stage- fiction
“In Colombia, rivers of _____ merge with rivers of ______. Glories of the economy, years of cheap money: in the midst of euphoria, the country produces cocaine, coffee and ______ in insane quantities.”
blood- gold- crime
"Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the _________. The principle of __________ disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should _______ it and try again.”
Universe- perpetual- scrap
“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his ___________; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of _______, a promise that the _____ of the world was founded securely on a _______ _____.”
imagination- reality- rock- fairy's wing
“Here was ______. She pulled in her ______ like a great ________. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her ______ to come and see.”
peace-horizon- fish-net- soul
“O ______, thou must ________ this, not I. / It is too hard a _____ for me t'untie.”
Time- untangle- knot
“A system of _________: Look out for number one. Your neighbor is neither your brother nor your _______. Your neighbor is a competitor, an enemy, an obstacle to clear or an object to use. The ________ feeds neither the body nor the heart: many are condemned to starve for lack of bread and many more for lack of _________.”
isolation- lover- system- embraces
“Those are big __________, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that _________, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like ____________ instead of always being just a bunch of ___________ at it?”
collisions- bumping- champions- beginners
“Gatsby believed in the _________, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run _____, stretch our arms out _______… and one fine morning—So we beat on, _______ against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the _______.”
green light- faster- farter- boats- past
“_______ at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the _______. For others they sail forever on the ________, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by ______. Now, women forget all these things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the _____. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
ships- tide- horizon- time- truth
“I’ll _________ the lamb that I do _____ / to spite a _______'s heart within a _______”
spite- love- raven's- dove
“Sometimes I recognize myself in _________. I recognize myself in those who will endure, friends who will shelter me, beautiful holy fools of _________ and other bums and vagrants who walk the ________ and will continue walking, just as the stars will continue in the night and the waves in the sea. Then when I ________ myself in them, I am the air, coming to know myself as part of the ______.”
others- justice- earthe- recognize- wind
And it's beautiful because that is what we want _______ to be like. But instead, like you said, Hally, we're bumping into each other all the time. Look at the three of us this afternoon. I've _________ into Willie, the two of us have bumped into you, you've bumped into your mother, she bumping into your Dad... None of us knows the _______ and there's no _______ playing. And it doesn't stop with us. The whole _________ is doing it all the time.
life- bumped- steps- music- world