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Death in Gatsby

5 quotes, in the order they happen.

The first-edition dust jacket of The Great Gatsby, Celestial Eyes
Celestial Eyes, the 1925 dust jacket. Francis Cugat. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

The quotes

the valley of ashes

Nick · Chapter 2 · class · death

The dump between West Egg and the city. The people who serve the rich live in the dust.

the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

Nick · Chapter 2 · honesty · death

A faded billboard. A dead oculist. Wilson later talks to it like God.

The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop

Nick · Chapter 7 · death · class

Daisy is driving. Myrtle runs into the road. The car does not stop.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money

Nick · Chapter 9 · class · money · death

They break Myrtle. They break Gatsby. They leave. Money is the door they close behind them.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead

Wolfsheim · Chapter 9 · honesty · death

Gatsby's gangster friend will not come to the funeral. He says this like wisdom.

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The words of the book come from Project Gutenberg, ebook 64317, the 1925 text (public domain in the United States). Cover art by Francis Cugat, 1925, public domain. Notes by Akash Wadhwani. Copy it. Print it. Share it. No sign-up.
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