Characters
This character is in love with Daisy Buchanan and lives in a mansion in West Egg. (real name)
Who is James Gatz?
What does the Valley of Ashes symbolize?
What is the struggle of the working class due social decay of the 1920's?
How do women's rights play a role in this novel?
What is the way women utilize their looks to get ahead in life by marrying into money?
"I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
This character says this quote to this person.
Who are Nick and Daisy?
Gatsby lives in this community in New York.
Where is West Egg?
This character is Daisy Buchanan's best friend and is a professional athlete.
Who is Jordan Baker?
What is the symbolism of the billboard of TJ Eckleberg in the Valley of Ashes?
What is God watching over the people of the city?
How do the 1920's play a part in the story?
What is prohibition, Bootlegging, New York City, Partying, Wealth, Poverty, Music?
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can."
This character says this quote to this person.
Who is Jay Gatsby to Nick Carraway?
Gatsby refers to Nick as this phrase.
What is Old Sport?
This character fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
What does the green light at the end of the Buchanon's dock symbolize?
What is daisy and therefore Gatsby's American Dream
In what ways are old money and New money portrayed as different in the story?
Where do each typically reside physically?
What is the way that old money is described as classy and sophisticated while earning money over a long journey of hard work while new money is described as wild and crazy earning their money through unorthodox ways?
What is old money East Egg and New money West Egg?
"I'm thirty... I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."
This quote is said by this person.
Who is Nick Carraway?
What is the Name of Tom's Mistress and who is she married to?
Who is Mertle Wilson and George Wilson
Gatsby saved this character's life after preventing their ship from sinking.
Who is Dan Cody?
What do Gatsby's parties symbolize in the story?
What is the constant flashing of money and glamorous lifestyle of new money West Egg to people he is seeking validation from but will never receive?
How is the theme of time depicted in this story?
What is depicted as a relentless force that shapes the characters' decisions influences the plot and underscores the inevitability of certain outcomes throughout the narrative?
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."
This quote is said by this person.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
This is Gatsby's real name.
What is James Gatz?
This Character shows Nick and Jordan around Gatsby's library at a party.
who is Owl Eyes?
What does the color yellow symbolize in the story?
What is Money, Materialism, and Social Class
How does the American dream play a part in the story?
What is the way Nick and Gatsby are both searching for their version of the american dream in Finding love and wealth in happiness?
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead... After that my own rule is to let everything else alone."
This quote is said by this person.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
This person plays the piano at Gatsby's parties and is a direct descendant of Beethoven.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?