HE WAS in Classic Quotes

1  He was probably bumming his way home.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

2  He was his wife's man and not his own.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

3  He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

4  He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

5  He was a blonde, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

6  He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

7  He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

8  He was worried now--there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

9  He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt" open at the neck, sneakers and duck trousers of a nebulous hue.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

10  He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

11  He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

12  He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

13  He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

14  He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

15  He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

16  He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American--that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

17  He was employed in a vague personal capacity--while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6