Chapter 3
This lavish location hosts Gatsby’s famous weekend parties, filled with music, dancing, and guests who barely know their host.
What is Gatsby’s mansion in West Egg?
This bleak area between West Egg and New York City is covered in ashes and symbolizes moral decay.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
This character tells the story and says his father taught him not to judge others.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This term refers to the person who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
This is the lesson or message an author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
Despite throwing the most extravagant parties on Long Island, this character remains distant and mysterious, often watching from the sidelines.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
This woman is Tom Buchanan’s mistress, whom Nick meets during the trip to New York City.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
Nick moves from the Midwest to this place on Long Island to work in the bond business.
What is West Egg?
When a reader uses hints in the text to make a smart guess about what will happen next, they are doing this.
What is making an inference?
This type of language gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
In Chapter 3, Nick reveals this surprising personal habit that distinguishes him from most of the party guests.
What is that Nick does not drink much alcohol (or is one of the few sober people at the party)?
These large, fading eyes watch over the Valley of Ashes from a billboard advertisement.
What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
This wealthy couple lives in East Egg and invites Nick over for dinner in Chapter 1.
Who are Tom and Daisy Buchanan?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This part of an essay states the main claim or argument.
What is a thesis statement?
The fact that many guests attend Gatsby’s parties without an invitation best illustrates this theme.
What is illusion vs. reality (or the emptiness of wealth / moral decay of society)?
Tom, Nick, and Myrtle travel to this city, where they attend a small party in an apartment.
What is New York City?
During dinner, this character is aggressive and arrogant, especially when talking about race and society.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This sentence introduces the topic and main idea of a paragraph or essay.
What is a topic sentence (or thesis statement)?
The time and place where a story happens is called this.
What is the setting?
This repeated image of guests arriving and leaving “like moths” suggests their attraction to wealth, light, and spectacle.
What is symbolism of mindless attraction to wealth and glamour?
This character owns the garage in the Valley of Ashes and is unaware of his wife’s affair.
Who is George Wilson?
This mysterious neighbor of Nick is mentioned but not yet introduced in detail.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
This term refers to the message or life lesson an author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
Using clues in a sentence to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word is called this strategy.
What are context clues?