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What is the common denominator to all the stories about people who meet at Gatsby's parties?
They are people who are using him for money and wealth
Describe Gatsby's car.
-Rich cream color
-Bright with nickel
-Triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes
-Terraced w/ labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns
What does Gatsby do when he is speeding in the valley of ashes?
He shows the police a white card.
What does Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby?
He is a gentleman of "good breeding," not the type to go after anybody's wife or anything.
Why did Gatsby buy the mansion where it is?
So he could be just across the bay from Daisy
What was Nick writing on an empty table?
The names of those who came to Gatsby's house
Describe Wolfsheim.
-Small, flat-nosed Jew
-Large head
-Two fine growths of hair luxuriated in either nostril
-Tiny eyes
Who is Wolfsheim? Where does Nick meet him?
He is an associate of Gatsby's, a "mobster," who fixed the World Series in 1919. Gatsby introduces Nick to him at lunch.
What was one rumor about Daisy?
She packed her bag to go to New York to say good bye to a soldier going overseas.
After Daisy reacted to Jordan mentioning Gatsby, who did Jordan connect Gatsby with?
The officer in her white car
What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?
-Son of a wealthy family in Middle West (San Francisco)
-Educated in Oxford
-Collected riches all around Europe
-Then went into war
How does Jordan describe Daisy?
-Eighteen
-Most popular girl in Louisville
-Dressed in white
-Telephone rang all day
What was the old Metropole?
A restaurant where many people have died
What "matter" does Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick?
Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he can be reunited with her.
What did Daisy do on her wedding day? Why?
She drank. She didn't wanna marry Tom.