Plot
Characters
Explanation
Dialogue
Colors
100
What did Gatsby ask Nick to arrange?
A tea party with Daisy
100
Behaved like a child, but eventually opened up.
Gatsby
100
"They had forgotten me but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all."
They were rapt with their love.
100
"Of course, of course! They're fine! ... old sport."
Gatsby to Nick
100
The lemon cakes from the delicatessen.
Nick forgetting to tell the Finn to buy the necessary supplies for tea, demonstrating his carelessness.
200
What did Gatsby offer to Nick for his assistance?
A job.
200
Amazed by Gatsby's mansion.
Daisy
200
"It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees."
Nick often only visited Gatsby's house during his enormous parties.
200
"Who is 'Tom'?"
Daisy to Nick
200
The dresser in the simplest room garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.
Gatsby's substitution of creativity with money.
300
What happened to Daisy and Gatsby while Nick was wasting time in the kitchen?
Daisy began to cry with joy, and Gatsby radiated a glowing aura.
300
Daisy's chauffeur
Ferdie
300
"He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room."
Gatsby's delight of finally reconnecting with Daisy.
300
"Are you in love with me? Or why did I have to come alone?"
Daisy to Nick
300
A green light that burns all night at the end of Daisy's dock.
The Buchanans' riches, but Gatsby's hopes.
400
What happened when Gatsby showed his colorful wardrobe?
Daisy began to cry.
400
The pianist wearing shell-rimmed glasses and blond hair.
Ewing Klipspringer
400
"He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third."
From his embarrassing meeting with Daisy, to the joy of her presence, and now to awe from the stupefying effect that she had on him.
400
"Yes. ... Well, I can't talk right now. ... I said a small town. ... He must know what a small town is. ... Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. ..."
Gatsby to Anonymous
400
Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold colored tie.
Wealthy and a bit brash, but free of corruption.
500
How does Gatsby lose most of his inheritance? How did he regain some of his fortune?
He lost it in the "panic of the war." He was in the drug and oil businesses for a while.
500
Gatsby's best friend from a while back, now deceased.
Dan Cody
500
One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get -- children. In the meantime, In between time ---
Greed consumes the rich, and the less fortunate find joy in the solace of their companions.
500
"I was asleep. That is, I'd been asleep. Then I got up..."
Ewing Klipspringer to Daisy
500
Shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
Gatsby's unrelenting love for Daisy, the coral representing this love, the green his envy of Tom, and the blue his sorrow from losing her.
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