Characters
Setting
Plot
Literary Elements
Miscellaneous
100
Described as superficial, arrogant, old-money snobs.
Who are Tom and Daisy Buchanan?
100
Setting where both Gatsby and Nick live.
What is West Egg?
100
Struggle between Tom and Gatsby over Daisy.
What is external conflict (or man vs man)?
100
Color author uses to represent Daisy at the beginning of the novel to represent purity.
What is white?
100
The narrator of the story.
Who is Nick Carraway?
200
Presented as non-judgmental or impartial.
Who is Nick Carraway
200
A desolate area on the way into the city from West & East Egg.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
200
When Gatsby is shot by Wilson.
What is the resolution?
200
Daisy unknowingly kills Tom's lover, and Tom indirectly kills Daisy's lover.
What is irony?
200
Where the first meeting between Gatsby and Daisy occurs.
What is Nick's house?
300
Described as curvy and sensuous.
Who is Myrtle?
300
A formal and traditional colonial Georgian mansion in East Egg.
What is the Buchanan's home?
300
When Daisy hits Myrtle with Gatsby's yellow car.
What is the climax or turning point?
300
The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg on the billboard represents this.
What is God (eyes of God)?
300
Feelings intensified by the heat and revelation of the affair between Daisy and Gatsby to Tom.
What is tension and anxiety?
400
Referred to as "the boarder"
Who is Klipspringer?
400
Where Tom break's Myrtle's nose.
What is the apartment in New York?
400
Gatsby waiting for Daisy after the accident, Nick and Gatsby discussing Gatsby's past, George Wilson going from gas station to gas station.
What is the falling action?
400
Represents hope and romantic ideas of Gatsby's future with Daisy.
What is the green light (at the end of her dock)?
400
It creates the twist for the plot so that Daisy ends up killing Tom's mistress.
What is the switching of the cars?
500
Had an extraordinary gift for hope and was often gossiped about.
Who is Gatsby?
500
Large, noisy celebrations where people act like they are at an amusement park.
What is one of Gatsby's parties?
500
When Gatsby and Daisy meet for the first time in 5 years.
What is the inciting incident?
500
Perspective from which this story is told (not the character's name).
What is first person participant?
500
Wealth can inevitably corrupt, and don't try to live in the past.
What is theme (a theme of the novel)?
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