The Great Gatsby Summary

Chapter one particular

" His speaking words, a gruff husky mezzo-soprano, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There is a touch of protector contempt in it, actually toward persons he appreciated В­ and there were men at Fresh Haven who hated his guts. " -Pg. six fractious (adj) - unruly, quarrelsome, irritable.

" Something was making him nibble close to stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism not anymore nourished his peremptory cardiovascular system. " -- Pg. 20-21 peremptory (adj) - admitting of zero contradiction, typically characterized by arrogant self-assurance

Chapter a couple of

" The supercilious assumption was that in Sunday afternoon I had absolutely nothing better to carry out. " supercilious (adj) - arrogant, contemptous

" Wilson's mother which hoveblue like an ectoplasm on the wall membrane. His better half was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible. She informed me with satisfaction that her husband had photographed her a hundblue and twenty-seven times given that they had been hitched. " -Pg. 30 ectoplasm (n) - a skin gels substance kept to produce nature materialization

" I wanted to acquire out and walk southward toward the park throughout the soft twilight, but whenever I tried to go My spouse and i became interlace in some untamed, strident debate which taken me back, as if with ropes, in my couch. " -- Pg. 36 strident (adj) - powerful attention by a loud or obtrusive top quality

Section 3

" Laughter is simpler minute by simply minute, leaking with prodigality, tipped away at a cheerful term. " - Pg. 40 prodigality (n) - careless extravagance, lavishness, luxuriance

" A celebrated mezzo-soprano had sung in German, and a notorious contralto had being sung in punk, and involving the numbers individuals were doing " stunts" all over the garden, although happy, vacuous bursts of laughter flower toward the summer sky. " -Pg. forty seven vacuous (adj) - marked by insufficient ideas or perhaps intelligence; without serious occupation

" I had anticipated that Mr. Gatsby is a florid and corpulent person in his middle section years. " -Pg. forty-nine corpulent (adj) - having a sizable bulky body system

" But teenage boys didn't -- at least in my regional inexperience My spouse and i believed they didn't - drift coolly out of nowhere and get a palace on Long Island Sound. " -Pg. 49 provincial (adj) - limited in prospect, narrow; unsophisticated

" In spite of the wives' arrangement that this sort of malevolence was beyond cblueibility, the question ended in a quick struggle, and both wives were lifted, kicking, into the night. " -Pg. 53 malevolence (adj) - powerful often bad ill can, spite, or perhaps hatblue

Chapter 5

" This kind of quality was continually breaking through his punctilious way in the shape of restlessness. -Pg. 64 punctilious (adj) - concerned about correct exact accordance with information on codes or conventions

" He's quite a character around Ny - a denizen of Broadway. " -Pg. 74 denizen (n) - inhabitant; one that frequents a place

Chapter 6th

" Having been a kid of Goodness - a phrase which in turn, if it means anything, means just that -- and he must be regarding His Father's business, the service of your vast, chocarrero, and meretricious beauty. " meretricious (adj) - tawdrily and inaccurately attractive, pretentioius, gaudy

" The none also savory implications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper girl, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to marine in a yacht, were well known to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902. " - Pg. 102 turgid (adj) -- swollen; excessively embellished in style or language, bombastic, pompous

" She was appalled by West Egg, this unmatched " place. " that Broadway experienced begotten upon a Long Isle fishing community - shocked by the raw energy source that chafed under the aged euphemisms and by the too obtrusive destiny that herded its occupants along a short-cut via nothing to absolutely nothing. " euphemism (n) -- substitution of the agreeable or inoffesive phrase for one that may offend or suggest anything unpleasant

Chapter 7

" " Is Mr. Gatsby ill?. " " Nope.. " After a pause he added " sir. " in a dilatory, grudging way. " -Pg. 113 dilatory (adj) - intending to cause postpone;...