General American Dream
(What is ?’s)
Characters
(Who is ?’s)
Perspective of Gatsby
Valley of Ashes
(Who, what, where ?’s)
General Quotes
(1-2 Who ?’s; 3-5 What ?’s)
100

This place is known as place of “new money” and is “less fashionable of the two,” (Fitzgerald, 5).

What is West Egg?

100

This person fixed the 1919 World Series (Fitzgerald, 73).

Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?

100

This person is friends with Gatsby,  at first seems enchanted by him when he firsts sees him, then loses the trust and figures he’s not a great guy, yet still defends him when others speak badly about him (Fitzgerald, 178).

Who is Nick Carraway?

100

“This is a _____ - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens…” (Fitzgerald, 23).

What is the Valley of Ashes?

100

This character with the large glasses said: “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library,” (Fitzgerald, 46).

Who is Owl Eyes?

200

Nick once said this: “So I decided to go East and learn the _____ business,” (Fitzgerald, 3).

What are bonds?

200

This person had an affair with their husband and was supposedly hit by Gatsby’s yellow car after running out into the road, and killed them in an instant in the valley of ashes (Fitzgerald, 138).

Who is Myrtle Wilson?

200

This person grew up from a dirt poor farmer’s family, who ran away to find riches (Fitzgerald, 98).

Who is James Gatz?

200

A billboard’s face with big blue eyes, with yellow spectacles, that overlook the Valley of Ashes,  (Fizgerald, 23).

Who is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?

200

This person said: “And hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” about their daughter (Fitzgerald, 17).

Who is Daisy’s daughter? 

300

Gatsby and Tom enter a type of an illegal “restaurant” where alcohol is served (Fitzgerald, 69).

What’s a speakeasy?

300

This person was known to live in East Egg (place of old money) who also went to school with Nick and married Nick’s cousin (Fitzgerald, 11).

Who is Tom Buchanan?

300

George Wilson framed Gatsby after he did some indecent action by killing him (Fitzgerald, 161).

Who shot Jay Gatsby?

300

This person's dream vanishes after the person they had an affair with got hit and killed by a car, (Fizgerald, 138).

Who are Tom and Myrtle?

300

This person gave a clear reaction of meeting the host of all these parties. “It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life,” (Fitzgerald, 48).

What was Nick’s reaction of Gatsby?

400

He “was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy-five,” (Fitzgerald, 99).

What is Dan Cody’s Dream?

400

This person was cheated on and has a garage business (Fitzgerald, 138).

Who is George Wilson?

400

Tom accuses Gatsby as someone who smuggles alcohol because of his mysterious background.

What’s a bootlegger?

400

George Wilson describes Dr. T.J. Eckleburg as an almighty figure that watches over the people of the Valley of Ashes.

Who is God?

400

Nick says this to some important character, “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” (Fitzgerald, 178).

What does Nick say to Tom?

500

Gatsby was a figure in darkness and “stretched out his arms toward the dark water,” (Fitzgerald, 20).

What is the Green Light?

500

This person cried because they were upset that they made a mistake of not living with Gatsby after he threw all these luxurious shirts upon her (Fitzgerald, 92).

Who is Daisy?

500

These well known and popular places surround the Valley of Ashes (Fitzgerald, 23).

Where are New York and West Egg?

500

This person said, ending with, , “tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” (Fitzgerald, 180).

What did Nick say/ end with the story?

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