Characters
This person is our narrator of the story.
Who is Nick
This is the couple that lives in the Valley of the Ashes
Who are George and Myrtle
A period of time where a group of people stay away to keep watch or prayer.
What is a vigil
Using the weather to guide how the characters are feeling is called this.
What is mood
In the beginning of Chapter 7, Nick, Daisy, Tom, Jordan and Gatsby are at the Buchanan house. Someone comes into the room that throws Gatsby for a loop and makes him think.
Who is Pammy, or Daisy and Tom's daughter.
This person is cheating on her husband with Tom.
Who is Myrtle
This is the type of business George owns
What is a car repair shop
Showing a generosity of spirit; high-minded and forgiving, especially toward someone who may have attempted harm.
What is magnanimous
At the end of chapter one, Gatsby is reaching out towards a green light that might represent something else. This is called a what?
What is a symbol
Nick and Gatsby start talking about Daisy's voice. They said it's full of what.
What is money
Who is Wolfsheim
This is the billboard that overlooks the Valley of the Ashes.
Why is a pair of giant eyeglasses
Loud, excited, and emotional; involving confusion and disorder.
What is tumultuous
This is the literary device used here to describe the two peninsulas: "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound."
What is a metaphor
On the way to town, they all stop at Wilson's garage where they learn Wilson knows Myrtle is having an affair so he needs some money for this reason.
What is he wants to take her out West.
This is who Jay Gatsby meets that helps him become who he is today(hint...it's when he changed his name).
Who is Dan Cody
This is what the giant eye glasses represent
What is the all-knowing, or someone watching over that sees everything.
Easily annoyed and likely to argue
What is truculent
The story takes place during the Jazz Age around the 1920's-30's in New York. This is an example of what literary device?
What is setting
In the hotel Tom and Gatsby fight, this is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom.
What is that she never loved him.
This the name of the character we meet in Gatsby's library and then again after the car accident leaving the party.
Who is Owl Eyes
This is what the Valley of Ashes symbolizes.
What is poverty or hopelessness.
taking away one's peace and tranquility; disturbing or anxiety-producing.
What is disquieting
In Chapter 3, Nick says this when talking about Gatsby's parties: "In Gatsby’s blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
This is an example of a what?
What is a simile
On the way back from NY, Daisy and Gatsby ride together. What happens?
What is, Daisy hits Myrtle with the car and kills her.