Modernist_Quotes_(Period_10)

 Modernist Quotes Period 10 __The Sun Also Rises__ Loss || Hope || Gender Roles || Sexuality Aficion || Identity || Social Isolation Temporariness || Escapism || Dissolution Morality || Light versus Darkness || Faith

__The Great Gatsby__ Hope || Loss || Social Isolation Morality || New Beginning || Isolation Temporariness || Relationship with TSAR

 You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes. -Bill, page 120

**(Hemingway) Loss**
 "'Oh Jake,' Brett said, 'We could have had such a damned good time together.' ... 'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it pretty to think so?'" (Hemingway 251)

Jake: "'Couldn't we live together, Brett? Couldn't we just live together?'" Brett: "'I don't think so...'" (Hemingway 62)

Cohn: "I've been through such hell, Jake. Now everything's gone. Everything." (Hemingway 198) [Since he was madly in love with Brett but she didn't love him, he had lost everything he came to Spain for, and was living for.]

"The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing." (Hemingway 228) [Mike, Bill, and Jake]

**(Hemingway) Hope**
 "He looked a great deal as his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.... He had that look of eager, deserving expectation." (Hemingway 29)

" 'Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.' ... 'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it pretty to think so?' " (Hemingway 251)

**Gender Roles**
 "'He wanted me to grow my hair out. Me, with long hair. I'd look so like hell.' ... 'He said it would make me more womanly.'" (Hemingway 246) [Brett likes to be more manly (she also has a boy's name)]

Cohn: "'I'll make you tell me --he stepped forward-- 'you damned pimp.'" (Hemingway 194) [Cohn asked Jake where Brett was]

About Brett: "Brett never took her eyes off them" (Hemingway 169) she watched attentively About Cohn: "I thought he was going to be sick" (Hemingway 169) afraid of bullfight

""Do you want me to send him away?" "No. He's nice." "I'll send him away." "No, don't." "Yes, I'll send him away." "You can't just like that." "Can't I, though? You stay here. He's mad about me, I tell you."" (Hemingway 61)

**Sexuality**
 "He was not in love yet but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle." (Hemingway 16)

Brett: "'You mustn't. You must know. I can't stand it, that's all. Oh, darling, please understand!'" (Hemingway 34) [Brett to Jake]

"Undressing, I looked at myself in the mirror of the big armoire beside the bed ... Of all the ways to be wounded. I suppose it was funny." (Hemingway 38) Brett: "Love you? I simply turn all to jelly when you touch me." (Hemingway 34) [Brett to Jake]

"'... I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot.' ... 'Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. ... Sex explains it all. The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.'" (Hemingway 121)

"Another group claims you're impotent." (Hemingway 120)

"Couldn't we live together, Brett? Couldn't we just live together?(Jake) I don't think so. I'd just tromper you with everybody. You couldn't stand it. (Brett)" (Hemingway 62)

**//Aficion//**
 "//Aficion// means passion. An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights." (Hemingway 136)

"He always smiled at us though bull-fighting were a very special secret between the two of us; a rather socking but really deep secret that we knew about." (Hemingway 136)

"All the good bull-fighters stayed at Montoya's hotel; that is, those with aficion stayed there" (Hemingway 136)

Brett: "My God, isn't he beautiful?" (Hemingway 144) [Brett to Jake, referring to the bull]

"The street was dark again and I kissed her." (Hemingway 33)

**(Hemingway) Identity**
 Cohn: "I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. No one really lives their life all the way up except bull fighters." (Hemingway 18) [Cohn to Jake]

"I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn- nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn has a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody." (Hemingway 104)

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." (Hemingway 19)

"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see?" (Hemingway 120)

**(Hemingway) Social Isolation**
 Mike: "Don't you know you're not wanted?" (Hemingway 146) [Mike said this to Jake when he (Mike) was drunk.]

"We were sitting now like two strangers." (Hemingway 35) [Referring to Jake and Brett]

"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes." (Hemingway 120)

"I had picked her up because of a vague sentimental idea that it would be nice to eat with some one. It was a long time since I had dined with a poule, and I had forgotten how dull it could be." (Hemingway 24)

"He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton." (Hemingway 11)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Hemingway) Temporariness**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "If you want people to like you you only have to spend a little money ... It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis." (Hemingway 237) [Relationships are unstable - money is NOT a sound basis for friendship]

"I calculated how many days I would be in San Sebastian and then wrote out a wire to the office asking them to hold mail, but forward all wires for me to San Sebastian for six days." (Hemingway 238)

"Oh, he told everyone that we were going to be married, and I told my mother and every one, and now he doesn't want to do it." (Hemingway 53)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Escapism**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.'" (Hemingway 19)

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste." (Hemingway 66)

Bill: "Sure. Get tight. Get over your damned depression" (Hemingway 227) [Referring to liquor]

Mike: "Let's take a drive. It might do my credit good. Let's drive about for a little." (Hemingway 234) [Mike said this to Bill]

"We could have had such a damned good time together." (Hemingway 251)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Dissolution**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Brett: "Barmen and jockeys are the only people who are polite any more." Jake: "No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice." (Hemingway 248) [Liquor serves as comfort]

"I swung at him and he ducked. I saw his face duck sideways in the light." (Hemingway 195) -Fight between Cohn and Jake

"He had a pile of saucers in front of him, and he needed a shave." (Hemingway 49)

"You drink yourself to death." (Hemingway 120)

"When Bill offered the bottle the second time he took a long drink, and then the bottle went all over that part of the bus. Every one took a drunk very politely,and then they made us cork it up and put it away." (Hemingway 110)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Hemingway) Morality**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Brett: "You haven't any values. You're dead, that's all." (Hemingway 67) [Brett said this to Jake]

"That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that was immorality" (Hemingway 152)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Hemingway) Light vs Darkness**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "We looked out at the plain. The long lines of trees were dark in the moonlight. There were the lights of a car on the road climbing the mountain. Up on the top of the mountain we saw the lights of the fort. Below to the left was the river. It was high from the rain, and black and smooth. Trees were dark along the banks. We sat and looked out. Brett stared straight ahead. Suddenly she shivered." (Hemingway 186)

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Hemingway 42)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Faith**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Jake: "No, why should I? If I know an American girl that lives in Starsbourg what the hell is it to Frances? Cohn: "It doesn't make any difference. Any girl. I couldn't go, that would be all." Jake: "Don't be silly." Cohn: "You don't know Frances. Any girl at all Didn't you see the way she looked?" (Hemingway 14)

"I wondered if there was anything else I might pray for, and I thought I would like to have some money, so I prayed that I would make a lot of money...I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it..." (Hemingway 103)

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Hope**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.'" (Fitzgerald 78)

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." (Fitzgerald 2)

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning - " (Fitzgerald 180)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Loss**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Possibly it has occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her." (Fitzgerald 93)

"She was incurably dishonest." (Fitzgerald 58) [Nick is talking about Jordan Baker, and later you see the contrast between them when he says...]

"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (Fitzgerald 59)

(Wilson when Myrtle died): "He gave out incessantly his high, horrible call: 'Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od'" (Fitzgerald 139)

"Filler with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there. (Fitzgerald 74)

"'When I was a young man it was different- if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that's sentimental, but I mean it-to the bitter end.'"(Fitzgerald 171)

" 'And there's not a damn thing we could do,' I said. 'I don't know,' she said. 'I don't want to go through that hell again.' 'We'd better keep away from each other.' 'But darling, I have to see you. It isn't all that you know.' 'No, but it always gets to be.' 'That's my fault. Don't we pay for all the things we do, though?' " "Everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it" (Fitzgerald 29)

"For just a minute i wondered if I wasn't making a mistake, then I thought it all over again quickly and got up to say good-by. ... Angry and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away" (Fitzgerald 177)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Social Isolation**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Nick: "Ill get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don't worry. Just trust me and I'll get somebody for you ---" (Fitzgerald 164)

"I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone." (Fitzgerald 164)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Morality**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Nick: "Tom's got some woman in New York." "She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time." (Fitzgerald 15) [Said to Miss Baker]

"'God see's everything' repeated Wilson" (Fitzgerald 160)

"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified." (Fitzgerald 179)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**New Beginning**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (Fitzgerald 118)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Isolation**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself...and to this conception he was faithful to the end." (Fitzgerald 98)

"The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came." (Fitzgerald 174)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**(Fitzgerald) Temporariness**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control." (Fitzgerald 125) [Tom was losing control and this shows the temporariness of his power in his relationships]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Relationship with __The Sun Also Rises__**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "'Oh, no,' said the first girl, 'it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war.'" (Fitzgerald 44) [Relationship between characters]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**More Quotes...**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs..." (Fitzgerald 80)

"There must have been some moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion." (Fitzgerald 95)

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness..." (Fitzgerald 179)

"The only //crazy// I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake." (Fitzgerald 34)

"I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, profound" (Fitzgerald 47)

"They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation. Perhaps its because she doesn't drink. Its a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people." (Fitzgerald 77)

"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 78)

"But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room." (Fitzgerald 89)

[Gender Roles]"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (Fitzgerald 17)

[Dissolution]"I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound." (Fitzgerald 47)

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