Character Matching
This mysterious millionaire throws extravagant parties every weekend in West Egg hoping to reconnect with Daisy.
Who is The Great Gatsby character Jay Gatsby?
Gatsby throws extravagant parties every weekend for this reason.
What is “He hopes Daisy will attend one”?
This dangerous natural force becomes the main conflict in To Build a Fire.
What is extreme cold?
Naturalist writers often portray humans as being controlled by this powerful force.
What is fate and nature?
This author wrote Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This narrator of the novel moves to West Egg and becomes Gatsby’s neighbor and confidant.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This symbol represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future.
What is the green light?
The main character travels through the Yukon with this companion.
What is a dog?
This author is best known for writing The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and using humor and regional dialect in his stories.
Who is Mark Twain?
Lennie is known for having difficulty controlling his strength and this.
What is memory?
This wealthy but careless couple represents old money and leaves destruction behind them throughout the novel.
Who are Tom and Daisy Buchanan?
Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in this wealthy area.
What is East Egg?
The man ignores this old-timer’s warning about traveling alone in the cold.
What is “Do not travel alone below fifty degrees”?
This type of humor, heavily used in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, exaggerates characters and events in a rough frontier setting.
What is tall tale humor?
This dream represents George and Lennie’s hope for independence and owning land.
What is the American Dream?
This character owns a garage in the Valley of Ashes and becomes devastated after his wife’s death.
Who is George Wilson?
This character is driving the car that kills Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
This essential survival skill gives the story its title.
What is building a fire?
In The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Jim Smiley is best known for doing this activity.
What is gambling?
The story takes place during this historical period in America.
What is the Great Depression?
This athletic and arrogant Yale graduate has an affair with Myrtle Wilson during the novel.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
These giant billboard eyes overlooking the Valley of Ashes symbolize judgment and the moral decay of society in The Great Gatsby.
What are Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s eyes?
The man’s fire goes out after this happens.
What is “Snow falls from a tree onto it”?
Naturalism often shows that human beings are shaped by forces like environment, heredity, and this.
What is social class?
This character in Of Mice and Men is an older ranch worker who has a dog he is very attached to.
Who is Candy?