The 20s
What is "the Roaring Twenties"?
What is "The Jazz Age"?
On Long Island.
Where do Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and the Buchanans live while in New York?
From the Midwest.
Where did Nick Carraway come from?
The unattainability of the American Dream.
What is a key theme of the novel?
A year.
What invention did Henry Ford create that led to a cheaper and faster mass production of cars?
Because Daisy and Tom lived there.
Why did Gatsby stare towards the green light on the other side of the bay?
Jordan Baker
Who became Nick's girlfriend?
The green light.
What represents Gatsby's dreams and hopes for the future?
What happenings did Gatsby set out in order to draw Daisy's attention?
They were called flappers.
What were the "new women" of the 1920s called?
In a flat on Manhattan that Tom had rented for her.
Where did Tom and Myrtle usually meet?
Gatsby's real name.
Who was James Gats?
It might represent money and wealth, but also hope and dreams.
What does the colour green in the Great Gatsby symbolize?
To learn the bond business.
Why did Nick Carraway move to New York?
The Prohibition.
What was the national ban on alcohol during the 1920s called?
In the Valley of Ashes.
Where did the Wilsons live?
Where was Myrtle killed?
She was Tom's mistress.
Who was Myrtle Wilson?
The eyes of a God who judges the immorality of American society.
What might the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg symbolize?
Back to Minnesota.
Where did Nick Carraway go after Gatsby's death?
By selling shares on the stock market.
How did businesses usually raise finance?
In North Dakota
Where did James Gats grow up?
She was his cousin.
What was the relationship between Nick and Daisy?
The moral and social decay of the society.
It was ended over the telephone.
How did Nick end his relationship to Jordan?