Character Quotes
“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful, little fool.”
Who is Daisy
Fixed the 1919 World Series
Who is Wolfshiem ?
What is Old Money?
Nick going over to the Buchanan's for dinner
What is the rising action?
Character left out of the final scenes of the movie but played a role in our understanding of Gatsby in the novel
Who is Henry Gatz?
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy”
Serves as a surrogate father to Gatsby
Who is Dan Cody?
West Egg represents this
What is New Money?
Nick returns to the Midwest after Gatsby's Funeral
Gets little cakes for the luncheon in the movie instead of flowers in the book
“That’s my Middle West… street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark.”
Who is Nick?
Oculist who advertised in the Valley of Ashes
Who is T.J. Eckleburg
The Eyes of God
What is the T.J. Eckleburg Billboard?
Daisy hits Myrtle
What is the Climax?
Eliminated from the movie until the Buchanan's decide to leave
Who is Daisy and Tom's Daughter ?
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
Son of poor Midwest Farmers
Who is James Gatz?
Representing the dim hope as Gatsby gets closer to Daisy
Nick is a bondsman coming to New York fro the Midwest
What is the exposition?
This person meets Gatsby and Nick while at a Speakeasy in the movie, but in the book he only sees Nick
Who is Tom?
"He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out . . . I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried . . . all afternoon."
Who is Myrtle?
Gatsby’s persistent houseguest
Who is Klipsinger?
Represents the downfall of man by consumerism
Gatsby's funeral
What is the denoument?
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?