Chapter Nine

Pg.179... "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

This just pretty much describes how Daisy and Tom are. This is how they have been acting through the whole book. They don't care about anyone but themselves. and they always create a conflict and then they just disappear. 

Pg.176... I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

I feel like this quote is just what brings the book together. It really would be a story about the West if it wasn't taken place in the East. It's just that fact that they all came from there and that they had nothing else to show for it. They just moved to the East so that they could have their money. That's all they cared about. 

Pg.174-175.... "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on..." 

I really like this quote. It not only shows the picture in your head of a grave and the fact that is is raining outside. but it's just a simple sweet text. 

Pg. 180.... "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic 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..."

I feel like this quote is trying to say that we are attached to things for so long that we start to loose how long we are really attached to it. That is what happened in Gatsby's case. He was obsessed with something he knew he couldn't have and that inevitably got him killed.