Characters
This character, a Jewish-American based on notorious gambler Arnold Rothstein, is said to have fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
When Nick first sees Gatsby, Gatsby is looking out toward this.
What is the green dock light--Daisy's house?
‘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.’
Who is Nick's father?
Nick meet's Tom's mistress here.
What is George B. Wilson's Repair Shop in the Valley of Ashes?
Gatsby claims to be educated from here.
What is Oxford?
He, native to the midwest and a Yale graduate, is the novel's narrator.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This represents old money; this represents new money.
What are East Egg and West Egg?
‘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.’
Who is Daisy?
Tom breaks Myrtle's...
What is her nose?
According to Jordan, what Daisy does on her wedding day.
What is she began to cry—she cried and cried?
"Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-cli- max. His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest."
Who is Tom Buchanan?
The Valley of Ashes might represent these two things.
What are the filth of industrialization and the moral decline of society?
(1) humor or frivolity, especially of a serious matter; and (2) behaving or looking superior to others.
What are (1) levity; and (2) supercilious?
What Gatsby tells Nick about himself (name two things).
What is I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition?
Why Nick moves east.
What is to learn the bond business?
She is in her middle thirties, faintly stout, and carries her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
Who is Myrtle?
A pair of giant blue eyes with yellow glasses on a billboard; might represent God.
What is the sign advertising the business of Dr. TK Eckleburg?
"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody."
Who is Gatsby?
How does Myrtle behave as the party progresses?
What is she was "converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air"? She acts as though she is rich.
She is described as a snob, having "her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it".
Who is Jordan Baker?
This man is found looking at books in Gatsby's library and, after realizing the realness of all the books, calls Gatsby a real Belasco.
Who is Owl Eyes?
(1) epigram; (2) riotous; and (3) fractious.
What are (1) a pithy/wittty saying expressed in a clever way; (2) marked by or involving public disorder; and (3) irritable and quarrelsome?
What Tom does when he and Daisy return from their honeymoon.
What is Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the pa- pers too because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel?
Where Gatsby wants to reacquaint with Daisy.
What is Nick's house?