character
He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
symbol of extravagance and emptiness, as one person can't possibly need as many cars as the title character owns.
what is Gatsby's Automobiles?
the old money crowd
What is East egg
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
what is dreams
who said “I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
who is Daisy Buchanan
a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment
Who is nick Carraway?
symbolizes the passage of time.
What is the next mantle clock?
new money
What is west egg
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”- Jordan baker
what is partying
who said “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
who is Nick Carraway
Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family,
Who is Tom Buchanan
it symbolizes the title character's yearning for what is in his line of sight but remains out of his reach.
What is the green light?
industrial neighborhood in Queens that the rich have to drive through on their way from the Eggs to Manhattan.
what is The valley of ashes
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” -Nick Carraway
What is love?
who said “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
who is Nick Carraway
a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel.
Who is Jordan baker?
serves as a symbol of corruption and a lack of values.
The T.J. Eckleburg Billboard
over-the-top conspicuous consumption of those whose wealth is new and so must be always on display
What is Gatsby's mansion
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
What is sadness?
who said “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
who is Meyer Wolfsheim
exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. he loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom.
Who is George Wilson?
symbolize the glamourous lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties, the flashy spending of someone with "new money" seeking to impress those who will never accept him, and the corruption of the American Dream.
What is Gatsbys parties?
The novel takes place during a period of enormous change and transition for the U.S.
what happened in 1922?
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”-J Gatsby
What is loneliness?
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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