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Words and Phrases that Describe Gatsby 1.

-- he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. 20 2. enormous garden33 3. Rolls -Royce33 4. " Want to go with me, old sport?" 40 5. who is he? 40 6. just a man named Gatsby 40 7. "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once."... 41 8. hospitality 49 9. "He's a bootlegger" said the young ladies... 49 10.gorgeous car 51 11.So my first impression, that he was a person of undefined consequence51 12.elegant sentences 52 13.educated at Oxford 52 14.first lieutenant 53 15.Major Jay Gatsby 53 16."Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women" 58 17."What day would suit you?" 64 18.vacant eyes66 19.Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, 67 20.enormous house 69 21. "It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it."71 22.clippings--about you73 23.small town73

24.So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception faithful to the end 77 25.James Gatz76 26."Please don't hurry," Gatsby urged them. He had control of himself now, and he wanted to see more of Tom. 80 27.West Egg 81 28.It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night. 88 29.fascinated eyes90 30.looking with surprise 91 31.'You always look so cool," 92 32."An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit." 95 33."Go on," Gatsby said politely. 101 34."She loves me" 102 35."you didn't know" 102 36."loved me too?" 103 37."You don't understand," said Gatsby with a touch of panic. 104 38.denying everything 105 39."I found out what your 'drug-stores' were." 104 40.unfamiliar 105 41.yellow car 109 42.God Damn Coward! 111 43.disliked 112 44.couldn't possibly leave 115 45.--nothing 117 46.as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth 117

47.He sat down gloomily. "Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married -- and loved me more even then, do you see?" 119 48.never used the pool. 120 49.mattress126 50.I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away 136

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