Chapters 1-4
"'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. '"
Daisy Buchanan
"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."
Tom Buchanan
“Her voice is full of money,” [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it."
Characterization
This person often used big insults and racist remarks in his arguments.
Tom Buchanan
Nick & Gatsby live in _______ Egg, Tom & Daisy live in ________ Egg
West, East
She mocks Daisy, saying her name over and over again.
George Wilson claimed he "wised up to something the last few days," and he was moving Myrtle ________ whether she liked to or not.
Out West
Fitzgerald often wrote about the lives of young women in the 1920s, beginning to drink and wear what they wanted. This was clearly a relation to ____________.
Women's Rights Movement (Feminism 1st Wave)
This person held a secret meeting with Gatsby in order to understand the reasoning for the large parties.
Jordan Baker
Give two rumors that people give about Gatsby at the parties. (Ch.3/Ch.6)
Cousin to Kaiser Wilhelm, German Spy, killed a man, second cousin to the devil, bootlegger, etc.
Where did Gatsby claim he and Nick knew each other from?
Why does Myrtle run out into the street towards the yellow car?
She believed it was Tom in the yellow car
"Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her."
Symbolism
This person found a dog leash in his wife's drawer, even though they did not own a dog.
George Wilson
Nick was frightened by Meyer Wolfsheim because he had ______________.
Human molars as his cufflinks
A medal of honor from Montenegro and a photo from him at Oxford
George Wilson says "You can fool me, but you can't fool ______." While looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleberg.
God
Fitzgerald often wrote upon the issues of alcohol in the 1920s, he was bringing more attention to the issues of _____________.
Prohibition, the ban on alcohol.
_____ _____ was a skipper and ship mate to ____ _____
James Gatz, Dan Cody
Gatsby was wearing a ______ suit in Chapter 7, giving Tom the impression he was not real business man.
Pink
What were Gatsby's action to hearing Daisy's car pull up to Nick's house for the Tea Party?
Jumped outside in the pouring rain, almost left, but turned around and knocked on the door to re-enter.
Who does Nick track down and try to convince to attend Gatsby's funeral in Chapter 9?
Meyer Wolfsheim
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Paradox
Name a person attended Gatsby funeral in Chapter 9 (Besides Nick Carraway)
Henry C. Gatz who was Gatsby's father, and Owl Eyes who was the drunkest man at Gatsby's parties.
What does Nick find out about Jordan in Chapter 9?
She was engaged to another man