Characters
The Narrator
Who is Nick Carraway?
This is the location of the novel's two lavish parties held in Long Island.
What is Gatsby's house?
This is how Gatsby dies.
What is George Wilson shoots him?
"Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!"
Who is Gatsby?
This is the color of the light that represents Gatsby's desire to reclaim the past.
What is green?
The Narrator's Cousin
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
This is the "egg" where Nick lives.
What is West Egg?
This is what Myrtle does just before Tom hits her in the New York apartment.
What is repeat Daisy's name?
"And 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?
This area likely represents the forgotten byproducts of industry and the machines of wealth.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
The Husband of Nick's Cousin's Husband's Mistress
Who is George Wilson?
This is the university Gatsby suggests that he attended.
What is Oxford?
This is the major difference between the attendance at Gatsby's parties and his funeral.
What is very few people show up to Gatsby's funeral?
"I understand you're looking for a business gonnection."
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
Michaelis seems unconvinced of Wilson's portrayal of this image as the eyes of God.
What are the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg?
This leech of a character tickles the ivories for Gatsby.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
This is the city where Tom's chambermaid mistress worked.
What is Santa Monica?
This is how Jay Gatsby meets Dan Cody.
What is row out to Cody's yacht to warn him about a storm?
"Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy's..."
Who is Mr. Gatz?
This natural occurance fittingly accompanies an awkward culmination of years of effort and energy about to be realized.
What is the rain?
This is the ocularly strigine man who attended both Gatsby's first party of the novel and Gatsby's funeral.
Who is Owl Eyes?
This is the hotel that Meyer Wolfsheim nostaligcally recalls as the location of Rosy Rosenthal's murder.
What is the old Metropole?
Tom feels so confident in his position by the end of the contentious gathering in the Plaza Hotel that he lets Daisy do this.
What is return to Long Island with Gatsby?
"My God, I believe the man's coming,"..."Doesn't he know she doesn't want him?"
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This natural weather phenomenon adds to the building tension in the Plaza Hotel get together.
What is extreme heat?