Characters
Myrtle's Sister
Who is Catherine?
The home of T.J. Eckelberg
What is the Valley of Ashes?
Nick writes, “The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon” (Fitzgerald 8).
What is a simile?
This is how Nick feels during dinner with the Buchanans.
What is uncomfortable and overwhelmed?
The city where Tom and Daisy lived before moving to East Egg.
What is Chicago?
A professional golfer & Nick's crush
Who is Jordan?
The less fashionable, but still rich egg
What is West Egg?
“This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm ... where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke, and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”(Fitzgerald 23).
What is metaphor or imagery?
This is the mood in the valley of ashes.
Dreary & depressing
These two characters both graduated from Yale.
Who are Nick and Tom?
A photographer at the apartment party in Chapter 2
Who is Mr. McKee?
What is Tom's apartment?
“The air is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names” (Fitzgerald 40).
What is personification?
This is the reason Fitzgerald spends so much time describing the Valley of Ashes.
To juxtapose the setting with the glamour of East/West Egg.
This story popped up in Newspapers after Daisy and Tom's honeymoon.
When did Tom get in a car crash with the hotel chambermaid?
The husband of Tom's mistress who owns a garage.
Who is George Wilson?
Gatsby stares at this from across the bay
What is the green light?
Daisy exclaims, “I’m p-paralyzed with happiness”
(Fitzgerald 8).
What is hyperbole?
Why does Fitzgerald include all of the details in the following descriptions of Gatsby's party:
“Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves...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...”
How does this description mirror Gatsby’s meticulous preparations and highlights the extravagance that goes into each party, to demonstrate that Gatsby is clearly putting on a show?
Nick turns this offer from Gatsby down.
What is a job offer to make some money on the side?
A man in the library who doesn't think Gatsby exists
Who is Owl Eyes?
Gatsby takes Nick here to meet Wolfsheim
Who goes out to lunch?
What is paradox?
What does the following description show about Gatsby's party: “...girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups, knowing that someone would arrest their falls...”?
This is the name of the book that reveals Tom holds a racist/bigoted world view.
What is The Rise of the Colored Empires?