Themes...

Themes;

Love - “short winded elations of men”- (chapter 1)

              “I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in New Jersey”- (chapter 3)

            “For a moment I thought I loved her”- (chapter 3)

             “Gatsby?  What Gatsby?”  - (chapter 1)

             “I looked outdoors for a minute… It’s romantic isn’t it Tom?”  (Chapter 1)

             “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (chapter 1- bringing in idea of adultery also)

             “I’d get a divorce and get married to each other”- (chapter 1- adultery also)

              “Girls were swooning backwards playfully into men’s arms”- (chapter 3)

            “But his heart was in a constant turbulent riot”- (Chapter 6)

Class- “He wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”- (chapter 2)

            “I knew he was below me”- (chapter2)

            “A man of fine breeding”- (chapter 4)

            “He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife”- (chapter 4)

            “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful shirts before” (chapter 5)

            “I’ve never met so many celebrities”- (Chapter 6)

            “I raised him out of nothing, right out of the gutter”- (Chapter 9)

Money- “All they think of is money”- (chapter 2)

            “I came into a great deal of money”- (chapter 4)

            “He was at present, a penniless man”- (Chapter 8) 

Murder/death- “He killed a man once”- (chapter 3)

                           “It takes two to cause an accident”- (chapter 3)

                        “Then came the war”- (chapter 4)

                        “I lost most of it in the big panic- the panic of the war” (chapter 5)

“Then he killed her”- (Chapter 8)

“it was an accident George”- (Chapter8)

“The Holocaust was complete”- (Chapter 8)

     

Adultery- “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (chapter 1)

             “I’d get a divorce and get married to each other”- (chapter 1)