Characters
Settings
Symbols
Themes
Context
100
The narrator of the story
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
This is the part of Long Island where new money lives
Where is West Egg?
100
This symbol provides Gatsby with the hope of reaching his American Dream
What is the green light?
100
This theme demonstrates the differences between those in East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes
What is social class?
100
This is the author of The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
200
A character who is powerfully built and comes from a socially solid old family
Who is Tom Buchanan?
200
Daisy and Tom Buchanan are residents in this area
What is East Egg?
200
George Wilson confuses this symbol as "the eyes of God."
What is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's billboard?
200
The idea of inward truth vs outward truth is explored when it is discovered that Gatsby's real name is
Who is James Gatz?
200
The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, during this historical event
What is Prohibition?
300
This character often wears white and her face is "sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes, and bright passionate mouth."
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
300

This setting is "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens."

What is the Valley of Ashes?
300
These colors are used to describes some characters in the novel and represent excessive wealth
What are gold and silver?
300
Gatsby's justification for everything he does is due to his what for Daisy
What is love?
300
Fitzgerald coined this term for the 1920s
What is the Jazz Age?
400

This character is in her middle thirties and carries "her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can."

Who is Myrtle Wilson?
400
The home state of Jay Gatsby
What is North Dakota?
400
This symbol represents the carelessness and recklessness of the rich
What are cars?
400
Time is an important factor in the novel, whether is it the future, present, or past. Nick and Gatsby have a conversation about the past in which each says...
Nick: "You can't repeat the past."

Gatsby: "Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can repeat the past."

400
At first, Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, refused to marry him to a lack of this
What is money/success?
500
This character is "an elegant, young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty."
Who is Jay Gatsby?
500
A major Ivy League school that Tom and Nick both attended
What is Yale?
500
Gatsby has these in a room in his house and some believed them to fake and made out of cardboard
What the books in his library?


500
The lack of morals and recklessness among the rich is prominent in the novel. This is reflected when Nick criticizes Jordan's...
What is careless/reckless driving?
500
Prohibition was passed and repeal with these two amendments
What are the 18th and 21st Amendments?
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