Parties
This character hosts a dinner party at his West Egg mansion and a drinking party at his Manhattan apartment.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
According to Gatsby and according to Tom Buchanan, Gatsby made his early money committing this federal crime.
What is bootlegging?
OR
What is selling alcohol during Prohibition?
This object, at the end of the Buchanans' deck, represents hope, money, and the American dream, according to Nick Carraway.
What is a green light?
Baz's soundtrack uses several variations on this Lana Del Rey song.
What is "Young and Beautiful"?
(Someone in class just started singing this. You're welcome.)
In Baz's film, this character (who's not in the novel) recommends to Nick that he write Gatsby's story.
Who is the psychiatrist?
At Nick's first Gatsby party, he meets a very drunk man whose eyeglasses make him resemble this animal.
What is an owl?
This character commits vehicular manslaughter but never even talks to a police officer about it.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
Nick Carraway writes that this character gave up his godlike ambitions to devote his life to a Kentucky girl.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
Baz Luhrmann casted Elizabeth Debicki, who stands at an impressive six-foot-three, to play this character, but her romance with Nick is almost entirely gone from the film.
Who is Jordan Baker?
In the film, as Wilson guns down Gatsby, this character stands poolside and inexplicably doesn't visibly react to the murder-suicide.
Who is the Hertzog the butler?
This character meets Nick at Tom's dinner-party and reconnects with him Gatsby's grand house-party.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This is the single highest-profile crime attributed to Meyer Wolfshiem.
What is fixing the 1919 World Series?
Nick Carraway first leaves the Middle-West to try to make his fortune in this business.
What is selling bonds?
In Baz's film, Gatsby picked up the phrase "old sport" from this character.
Who is Dan Cody?
(There are people in class right now saying "old sport" in their best Leo DeCaprio voices. You're welcome.)
Although footage of this character at Gatsby's funeral does exist (thanks, Mina), Baz cut him entirely out of the film.
Who is Henry Gatz (James Gatz's father)?
This piece of music, according to the novel and the film, features at the first Gatsby party.
What is "A Jazz History of the World"?
The crime (according to the New York criminal code in 1922) committed by Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson but not (as far as we know) by any other major characters in the novel.
(John Proctor also committed this crime.)
What is adultery?
Nick Carraway writes that this character is so cruel and vicious because his inherited wealth kept him from having any real dreams or ambitions.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
The Plaza Hotel scene in Baz's film begins with Tom watching a hotel worker use this tool.
What is an ice pick?
This character in the film travels the greatest distance into the air, unassisted by an aircraft.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
In an early moment in the novel, Nick is in this character's apartment, and this character is wearing only his underwear.
Who is Mr. McKee?
After Gatsby dies, this man calls from Chicago to tell Nick (he thinks he's talking to Gatsby) that their insider-trading scheme has run into trouble with the law.
Who is Mr. Slagle?
Catherine tells Nick that Myrtle Wilson expects this result of her relationship with Tom Buchanan.
What is leaving Daisy and moving out west?
In Luhrmann's film, Nick meets this character not at a quiet lunch but in a noisy speakeasy.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
The final shot in Luhrmann's film focuses on this object before fading to black and rolling credits.
What is the green light?