The Passing Lane
Clare and Irene grew up there.
What is Chicago?
He did the police commissioner "a favor" once.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
It represented the gaudy, new-money lifestyle that Jay Gatsby had built.
The yellow car.
Gatsby and Nick live in this "new money" part of Long Island.
What is West Egg?
The place of Hester's public punishment.
What was the scaffold?
She said "Children aren't everything."
Who is Clare?
She keeps calling Tom on the phone at dinner time. So tacky!
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
Her name means "light".
Who was Clare Kendry?
The "old money" live here.
What is East Egg?
The only person who came to Gatsby's funeral.
Who was Henry Gatz?
Brian wants to take his family there because he hates his job.
What is Brazil?
In disguise as a kind physician he is actually out for revenge!
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
Outside the Boston jailhouse doors, it represented the beauty and hope of the natural world in contrast with the rigid judgements of human society.
What is the rose bush?
Wilson's Garage is in this "'liminal" space between the City and Long Island.
What is The Valley of Ashes?
She became a valuable member of the community who was know for her wisdom and charity.
Who was Hester Prynne?
She thought is was "easy for a Negro to 'pass' for white" and she did so when it benefitted her like at the Drayton in Chicago.
Who was Irene Redfield?
Publicly praised, he is privately consumed with guilt and secretly punishes himself.
Who was Arthur Dimmesdale?
Her mother paid a "great price" for her.
Who is Pearl?
Tom and Nick first met there.
What was New Haven or Yale?
Gave his son advice against judging people.
Nick Carraway's father.
A chance encounter with him revealed Clare's secret.
Who is John Bellew?
Her beautiful voice "sounds like money."
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
The billboard "eyes of God".
Who was Dr. TJ Eckleberg?
The part of the "middle west" that Gatsby told Nick he came from.
San Francisco
This book both began and ended with awkward and unpleasant parties.
What is Passing?