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How is the American dream portrayed in the story?
What is the lavish lifestyle they live with new money, as long as you work hard you can achieve success?
What does the green light symbolize?
What is Gatsbys hopes and dreams?
This self-made millionaire is obsessed with love and the past, representing hope and illusion.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
Why does Nick move to New York, and who does he move in by?
What is to visit his cousin Daisy, and next to Gatsby's mansion?
How does social class influence the ways characters treat each other?
What is characters with old money (Tom and Daisy) see themselves as superior and those with new money (Gatsby) are treated like outsiders?
What does the bay symbolize?
What is the bay separates Gatsby and Daisy and represents the gap between reality and dreams?
What role does Nick play in Gatsby’s life?
What is Nick acts as a bridge, the storyteller, and Gatsby only genuine ally?
Why does Gatsby hosts parties, and what role does Nick play in this?
What is to try and get closer to Daisy, Gatsby uses Nick to reunite them both?
How does Gatsby obsession with Daisy mirror themes of the American dream?
What is the belief that if he works hard and becomes rich he can achieve happiness and win her back, his obsession shows that the "dream" can be become unrealistic and unatonable?
What do the lavish parties at Gatsby's house symbolize?
What is the superficiality and illusion of Gatsby?
How does Daisy Buchanan symbolize wealth or the American Dream?
Daisy symbolizes how the American Dream can look beautiful and desirable on the surface, but ultimately be shallow, unattainable, or unfulfilling.
Why Does Tom Confront Gatsby in the city, and what happens after?
What is Tom confronts Gatsby about the affair. On the way out Daisy runs over Myrtle with Gatsby’s car?
Is Gatsby’s “Greatness” a result of his hope and ambition, or is it merely an illusion built on crime and fraud?
What is his greatness is an illusion built on superficiality?
What do Dr. T.J Eckleburg eyes on the billboard symbolize?
What is A watching of the presence of God? The giant eyes on the billboard are in the Valley of Ashes that make it seem like someone is always watching. Some characters like George Wilson have interpreted them as the eyes of God this suggests that moral judgment over people’s actions.
Who reflects the working class and how they live in a society only forgiving to the rich?
Who is George Wilson, an unsuccessful struggling mechanic that has been beaten into submission by poverty and suffering an awful marriage while still hoping for a better future?
What happens to Gatsby at the end of the story, and why?
What is Tom convinces George that Gatsby is responsible for Myrtle’s affair and for running her over? George then shoots Gatsby in his pool, later shooting himself.