Who said it?
"Good morning, old sport. You're having lunch with me today and I thought we'd ride up together" (64/41).
Jay Gatsby
Who is Nick Carraway?
The narrator of the novel
"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe--Paris, Venice, Rome--collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago" (65/42).
Simile
"'Gratulate me...Never had a drink before, but oh how do I enjoy it" (76/48).
Daisy Buchanan
Who is Jay Gatsby?
The title character of the book, Nick Carraway's wealthy neighbor who lives in a mansion and is known for throwing lavish parties
"He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand" (64/41).
Negation
"He's afraid, he's waited so long. He thought you might be offended. You see, he's regular tough underneath it all" (78/50).
Jordan Baker
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
Tom Buchanan's wife, Nick's cousin, Gatsby's love interest
"It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxed and toolboxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns" (64/42).
Metaphor, imagery
“To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look” (66/43).
Nick Carraway
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
Gatsby's friend who he met after the war, a gambler
"With fenders spread like wings we scattered light through half Astoria--only half, for as we twisted among the pillars of the elevated I heard the familiar "jug-jug-spat!" of a motorcycle, and a frantic policeman rode alongside" (68/44).
Simile, onomatopoeia
"There's the kind of man you'd like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister" (72/46).
Meyer Wolfshiem
Who is Bunsen?
A man who Nick knew from Yale and attended one of Gatsby's parties over the summer
"I was happier on the lawns because I had on shoes from England with rubber knobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground. I had a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind, and whenever this happened the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out still and said tut-tut-tut-tut, in a disapproving way" (74/47).
Imagery, onomatopoeia, personification