character motivation
Characters
quote
interpretation
symbolism
plot
100

Why dose Tom choose to tell Nick about Myrtle

Nick won't tell anyone

100

Narrator of the story

Nick Carraway

100

I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.


Daisy is cynical about everything and hopes her daughter has a better world view

100

 What dose the Green light symbolize

Gatsby's hopes and dreams

100

What dose Gatsby ask Nick to do at the beginning of the novel (asks Jordan to ask for him)

Nick to invite Daisy to tea

200

Why dose Gatsby throw the parties

Hoping Daisy would go to one

200

The golden girl, married to Tom

Daisy Buchanan

200

‘You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy,’ I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘Can’t you talk about crops or something?’

Daisy is higher class then Nick

200

Daisy’s name

She's beautiful and pure

200

When did myrtle get hit

Coming back from town at the after Tom an Gatsby fight over Daisy

300

Why dose Tom and the Sloanes bring horses to Gatsby’s house

Horses mean old money

300

Played football and now pollo

Tom Buchanan

300

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Tom and Daisy ruin everything but then run away like nothing happened 

300

Gatsby’s Mansion

His love for Daisy

300

Were dose Gatsby invite Nick and Daisy after the tea party

Over to his house to impress Daisy

400

Why did Gatsby become friends with Nick

To get to Daisy

400

Plays golf

Jordan Baker

400

In my younger . . . years my father gave me some advice . . . “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

Nick was successful because he was raised with money but is humble

400

They eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

the eyes of God

400

When did Nick meet Wolfsheim

When Gatsby takes Nick to lunch to tell Nick who he is 
500

Why doesn’t Daisy leave Tom

Her daughter, their name, different time period 

500

Tom and Daisy’s daughter

Pamela

500

That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.


All the characters are from the west and lived peaceful lives but in the east everything is chaotic 

500

The valley of Ashes

The death of dreams

500

Where dose Nick move at the end of the novel

Back to the midwest

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