Characters
Setting
Events
Symbols
Vocabulary
100
This man built a whole life around the idea of getting a lost love back.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
100
This is a place where extravagant parties are held.
What is Gatsby's mansion?
100
This interrupts dinner the first night Nick goes to Tom and Daisy's home.
What is a phone call from Myrtle?
100
Symbolizes Gatsby's dreams (and the American Dream).
What is the green light?
100
a state of sadness.
What is being melancholy?
200
This woman is described as having a "full of money".
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
200
This is the area in which George and Myrtle Wilson live and own a gas station.
What is The Valley of Ashes?
200
At these events, Nick realizes no one knows the host.
What are Gatsby's parties?
200
Symbolizes the moral decay and greed Fitzgerald saw beneath the idea of the "American Dream". Also just symbolizes the ugly underside of things.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
200
This was the law/act that made alcohol illegal in the 1920s.
What is Prohibition?
300
This man, a former football star, told Wilson who owned the yellow car that hit Myrtle.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
300
This is the part of Long Island Sound in which the extremely wealthy people live -- people who come from a long line of money.
What is East Egg?
300
Tom hits Myrtle.
What is what happens at the apartment party in NYC when Myrtle won't stop saying Daisy's name?
300
Symbolizes God/Judgement.
What is the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg on the billboard above the gas station?
300
People who dealt with illegal alcohol sales were known as this.
What is bootleggers?
400
This man, described as handsome but lifeless, killed Gatsby, then shot himself.
Who is George Wilson?
400
This is the city close to Long Island which Nick describes as a place where "anything can happen".
What is New York City?
400
Shot by George Wilson in his pool.
What is what happens to Gatsby in the end?
400
Symbolizes that Gatsby is more real -- even with his self-created identity - than the rest of the people in the story.
What is the real books in the library that the owl-eyed man is amazed at?
400
The 1920s was known for this term -- which basically means people were buying tons of products.
What is consumerism?
500
This woman is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. She is described as being not traditionally pretty, but having a certain vitality that is sexy.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
500
This is where Myrtle says she first met Tom.
What is the subway?
500
Tom and Gatsby confront each other and the truth comes out.
What happens at the hotel?
500
Nick turns thirty.
What birthday does Nick have that symbolizes the end of his innocence?
500
This was a term for women in the 1920s who broke outtraditional roles - cut their hair in bobs, and wore short dresses.
What is a flapper?
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