Book-Based Random Crossword(8 x 8)
Across
- 1. ” His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a ____ still haunted him
- 5. I didn’t want to hear it and I avoided him when I got ___ the train
- 8. “If we were young we’d ____ and dance
- 9. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of ___ human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder
- 10. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that ____ by ____ recedes before us
- 11. They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale, thin ___ of moonlight between
- 12. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that ____ obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night
- 14. Through the hall of the Buchanans’ house ____ a faint wind, carrying the sound of the telephone bell out to Gatsby and me as we waited at the door
- 16. At the gray ___ hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor
- 17. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt ____ until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world
- 21. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the ___ laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home
- 22. Perhaps some unbelievable guest would arrive, a person infinitely ____ and to be marvelled at, some authentically radiant young girl who with one fresh glance at Gatsby, one moment of magical encounter, would blot out those five years of unwavering devotion
- 23. And ___ fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
- 24. He threw dust into your ____ just like he did in Daisy’s, but he was a tough one
Down
- 1. ” he heard her ___
- 2. “I’m five years too old to ___ to myself and call it honor
- 3. ___ Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him
- 4. Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her _____ and turned back
- 5. To the young Gatz, resting on his ____ and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world
- 6. “And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering—look here, when I went to give up that ____ and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby
- 7. they are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that ___ overhead
- 13. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became _____ of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world
- 14. Probably it was some final guest who had ____ away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over
- 15. One afternoon ____ in October I saw Tom Buchanan
- 16. ” “He come out to see me ___ years ago and bought me the house I live in now
- 18. He had come a long ___ to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it
- 19. In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits ___ walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress
- 20. ___