Can anyone give me at least 3 quotes of appearance vs reality or illusion in the great Gatsby?

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Can anyone give me at least 3 quotes of appearance vs reality or illusion in the great Gatsby?

Answer 1

Here are a few quotes from The Great Gatsby.

    * "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

      - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

    * "what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."

      - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

"seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."

- F.#  Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

# "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

# "Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged... It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

# "I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool... You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow... And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

# "All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

# "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

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