Location, location, location
Gatsby gets his beautiful shirts sent to him from a man in this country, where he also briefly went to school.
What is England?
This part of Daisy is described as "full of money."
What is her voice?
James Gatz gets his first introduction to the life he wants to lead as Gatsby from this man, whose yacht is called the Tuolomee.
Who is Dan Cody?
For all his tough-guy qualities, Tom Buchanan is one of the only characters we see crying in this book. Name the other prominent weeper, who seems to belong to Tom's secret society.
Who is Daisy?
Both the clouds that Daisy wants to push Gatsby around in and the suit that (in Tom's opinion) no real Oxford man would wear are this color.
What is pink?
In his last hours on earth at the end of summer, Gatsby chooses to spend some time in a place he had neglected using all summer long.
What is his swimming pool?
As a gift for Myrtle, Tom contemptuously pays ten dollars for one of these, which he implies is only worth a single dollar by itself.
In his belief in the unreality of reality, Gatsby is convinced that "the rock of the world" is "founded securely on" this.
What is a fairy's wing?
Jordan Baker thinks she'll be safe as a "rotten driver" because "[i]t takes two to make an accident," unaware that the other bad driver she has already met is this person.
Who is Nick Carraway?
Wolfsheim's grotesque qualities are perhaps most evident in his cufflinks, which are made of these.
What are human molars?
Gatsby claims that his family were from this prominent city in what he describes as the Middle West.
What is San Francisco?
When Gatsby meets Daisy at Nick's bungalow, he's wearing a shirt and tie the colors of these precious metals.
What are silver and gold?
This unpleasant exemplar of one kind of American success is credited in the novel with the notorious fixing of the 1919 World's Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
Not just Myrtle Wilson is possessed of vitality; so, too, is the illusion (whose vitality is "colossal") of this person.
Who is Gatsby?
Nick doesn't believe that this can be repeated, but he also says that we are "borne back ceaselessly into" it.
What is the past?
Daisy and Tom get married in this city, perhaps best known today for its signature pie (which itself is associated with a horse race).
What is Louisville, Kentucky?
Rich as he is, Gatsby reassesses the value of everything in his possession based on "the measure of response it drew from [the] well-loved eyes" of this person.
Who is Daisy?
The builder of Gatsby's house couldn't convince the neighbors to thatch their roofs (the better to complete the noble effect of the mansion) because "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being" this.
What is peasantry?
Although he later characterizes Tom's racist ranting as "impassioned gibberish," this character's own descriptions of black Americans, southeastern Europeans, and Jews indicate that he isn't exactly morally pure himself.
Who is Nick Carraway?
Name the "wag of an oculist" in Queens whose advertisement is mistaken for the watching eyes of God.
Who is Dr. T. J. Eckleburg?
When Tom tries to make Daisy admit that she loved him, he refers to this resort in Hawaii.
What is Kapiolani?
The best-known symbol of this book probably owes its color to its associations with American dollar bills. Name that symbol.
What is the green light?
One of the biggest obstacles to Gatsby's ambitions is measured by this kind of device, one of which he almost breaks during his initial reunion with Daisy.
[For a Daily Double: Name the obstacle as well!]
What is a clock?
[And for the Daily Double: What is time?]In addition to the chambermaid at the Santa Barbara hotel, this character is also a passenger in a vehicle that loses a wheel in an accident.
Who is Owl Eyes?
When Owl Eyes praises Gatsby's library for its "realism," he compares him to this theater impresario who specialized in spectacle.
Who is (David) Belasco?