The Great Gatsby / Великий Гэтсби. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Who said the following words? Under what circumstances?

1. “Works pretty slow, don’t he?”

2. “I want to get one of those dogs for the apartment.”

3. “I’ll telephone my sister Catherine. People who ought to know say she’s very beautiful.”

4. “If Chester could make a photo of you in that pose I think the result would be something special.”

5. “Really? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsby’s. Do you know him?”

6. “I’d like to do more work on Long Island, if I could get the entry.

7. “Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.”

8. “I almost married a little kike who’d been after me for years. I knew he was below me. But if I hadn’t met Chester, he could be my husband now.”

9. “Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there.”

10. “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai —”

9.

1. Where was the valley of ashes? What was special about it? Why did passengers have to stare at it for half an hour?

2. Did Nick want to see Tom’s mistress? Who forced him to? Where did she live?

3. What can you say about Mr. Wilson? Was he a strong successful man?

4. What did Mrs. Wilson buy after coming to New York?

5. Describe Mrs. Wilson’s apartment. Did Myrtle have good taste? Prove it.

6. Whom did Myrtle invite to the party? Tell some words about every guest.

7. How did Mrs. Wilson react to all compliments? Had her behavior changed since the garage?

8. What did Catherine say about the relationships in the Wilson and Buchanan families? Did Myrtle love her husband? Why, in Catherine’s opinion, couldn’t Tom get a divorce? Was it true?

9. How did Tom and Myrtle get acquainted?

10. What happened in the end of the evening? Who did Nick leave with? Where did they go?

10.

a) Myrtle Wilson;

b) Catherine;

c) Mr. McKee.

Chapter III

There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I looked at his guests who were diving from the tower of his raft, or sunbathing on the hot sand of his beach.