Setting
Where Nick has dinner in Chapter 1
What is Tom and Daisy's house?
Who is Nick Carraway?
The reason Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg
What is to be near Daisy?
"And I hope she'll be a ____. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little ____."
What is "fool?"
The place that symbolizes the contrast between the wealthy and the poor in the 1920s
What is the Valley of Ashes?
Where the entire state of New York comes to party
What is Gatsby's mansion?
Who is Gatsby?
The reason Nick showed up at Gatsby's party
What is he was invited?
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of ____."
What is "life?"
The object that symbolizes Gatsby's hopes and dreams (we talked about this in Chapter 1)
Desolate, soot covering every surface, industrial, working class
What is the Valley of Ashes?
This is the character known for gossip, cheating in games, and being dishonest.
Who is Jordan Baker?
The reason Tom punches Myrtle in the nose
What is for saying Daisy's name?
"He wants to know, if you'll invite ____ to your house some afternoon and then let him come over."
Who is "Daisy?"
The figurative language device used in this passage from Chapter 1: "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
What is SIMILE?
Superficial, extravagant, ostentatious (braggy/full of show offs), new money
What is West Egg?
This is the character that wants to appear as a lot RICHER than they actually are.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
What does Nick see Gatsby doing outside his house at the end of Chapter 1?
Fill in the blank: "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine. I am one of the few ____ people that I have ever known."
What is "honest?"
One adjective to describe the MOOD of each of the following:
Gatsby's Party
Dinner at Tom and Daisy's House
Party at Myrtle's Apartment
What is...
Gatsby's Party: luxurious, crazy, extravagant, etc.
Dinner: tense, superficial, awkward, etc.
Party at Myrtle's: messy, confused, wild
What is East Egg?
Fill in the blank:
George likes _____.
Gatsby likes _____.
Myrtle likes _____.
Tom likes ______.
Nick likes ______.
Who is (in order): Myrtle, Daisy, Tom, Daisy, Jordan
Name TWO of the rumors circulating about Gatsby.
What is...
Cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm (German commander)
Killed a man
Fought on the American side of the war
Oxford man
Fill in the blank: "Yeah, ____ is very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend's wife."
Who is Gatsby?
The reason that Gatsby moving to West Egg to be close to Daisy is IRONIC
What is "because there is still a bay separating them?"