Who Said It?
Literary Devices
All Things Jay Gatsby
Symbolism
Geography of The Great Gatsby
100

"Good morning, old sport.  You're having lunch with me today and I thought we'd ride up together."

Jay Gatsby

100

"She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow."

Simile

100

Why did Gatsby stare at the green light from the deck of his house?

The green light was on Daisy's dock

100

This place could represent the destruction of society and the poor working class

Valley of Ashes

100

This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live - represents "new money"

West Egg

200

"She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.  'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl.  And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'"

Daisy Buchanan

200

"At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden."

Alliteration

200

This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.

Dan Cody

200

This object could symbolize the idea of God watching all of the drama play out on earth.

The T.J. Eckleburg billboard with the bright yellow spectacles

200

Nickname of the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

Valley of Ashes

300

"She's not leaving me!  ... Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger."

Tom Buchanan
300

"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."

Metaphor

300

Who kills Gatsby and how?

George Wilson shot him.

300

This object could be the symbol of Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy

The green light on her dock

300

Section of New York associated with "Old Money" -- Tom and Daisy Buchanan live there

East Egg

400

"I just got wised up to something funny the last two days . . . That's why I want to get away.  That's why I been bothering you about the car."

George Wilson

400

"[Gatsby] was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty."

Hyperbole

400

Which war did Gatsby fight in?

World War I

400

This color goes from representing wealth and money to representing death and destruction

Yellow

400

Name the state where James Gatz was born

North Dakota

500

"You live in West Egg . . . I know somebody there."

Jordan Baker

500

"Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy."

Oxymoron

500

What did Gatsby beg Daisy to say out loud to everyone at the suite in the Plaza Hotel?

That she never loved Tom, that she only had ever loved Gatsby

500

This place could symbolize newly gained wealth and the extravagance of the Jazz Age along with its emptiness

Gatsby's house

500

This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up before moving to New York

Louisville, Kentucky

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