How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I wrote a little bit about The Great Gatsby for English. I read some of The Federalist Papers as early prep for my government final. (1.2.89)
Quentin is a good student, and Green lets us see his academic nature before he finds Margo Roth Spiegelman's copy of Walt Whitman's poems (Margo Roth Whitspiegelman), so we understand that his studying of it doesn't come unnaturally to him.
Quote #2
I sat alone with "Song of Myself" for a long time, and for about the tenth time I tried to read the entire poem starting at the beginning, but the problem was that it's like eighty pages long and weird and repetitive, and although I could understand each word of it, I couldn't understand anything about it as a whole. (2.10.1)
What, has Quentin never been to Shmoop? We could have explained this poem to him in minutes.