Hot Times in Chapter 7
The stifling, scorching weather on the day of the Plaza Hotel confrontation symbolizes this rising emotional state among the characters.
What is tension / conflict / anger?
The person who was actually driving the yellow "death car" when it struck and killed Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
He shoots Jay Gatsby while floating in his pool before turning the gun on himself.
Who is George Wilson?
The object found in a drawer that serves as concrete proof to George Wilson that Myrtle was having an affair.
What is an expensive, silver-trimmed dog leash?
Beside Nick, Mr. Gatz, and the servants, this former party guest is the only person who shows up at Gatsby’s burial.
Who is "Owl Eyes"?
Tom realizes Daisy is in love with Gatsby when she tells Gatsby he "always looks so..." this word.
What is "cool"?
The reason Gatsby hides in the bushes outside the Buchanan estate late into the night after the accident.
What is to protect Daisy in case Tom tries to physically harm her?
This character brings a copy of Hopalong Cassidy to show Nick proof of his son's boyhood ambition and discipline.
Who is Henry C. Gatz (Gatsby's father)?
The billboard in the Valley of Ashes that George Wilson mistakes for the all-seeing eyes of God.
What are the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
Nick reaches this ultimate conclusion about Tom and Daisy after they pack their bags and abandon Long Island.
What is that they are "careless people" who smash up things and money, then retreat back into their wealth?
During the emotional blowout at the Plaza Hotel, Nick suddenly remembers this personal milestone.
What is his 30th birthday?
When Nick and Tom stop for gas earlier that day, George Wilson looks physically ill because he just discovered this truth about Myrtle.
What is that she is having an affair / secret life?
He refuses to attend Gatsby's funeral because he makes it a strict rule never to get mixed up with "dead men."
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
Located at the end of Daisy's dock, it symbolizes Gatsby's romantic belief in recreating the past and his future promise.
What is the green light?
Nick decides to leave New York and return to the Midwest because the East feels like this to him after Gatsby's death.
What is haunted, corrupt, or distorted?
When Gatsby demands that Daisy declare she never loved Tom, Daisy hesitates and makes this emotional admission.
What is that she loved both Tom and Gatsby at different times?
The character who gives George Wilson advice shortly after Myrtle’s death, telling him to turn to a church or God for comfort.
Who is Michaelis?
When Nick calls this former guest to invite him to the funeral, he makes an excuse about a house party and asks for his tennis shoes back.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
This dismal setting between West Egg and New York symbolizes moral decay, poverty, and the spiritual emptiness of 1920s America.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
When Gatsby first met Daisy in Louisville, he admitted to Nick that he was initially attracted to her for this reason.
What is her wealth, high social status, and "youth and mystery"?
Tom feels compelled to confront Gatsby at the Plaza Hotel primarily because he feels these two things slipping away simultaneously.
What are his social authority (power/privilege) and his marriage?
The character who tells George Wilson that the yellow car belongs to Jay Gatsby, directly leading to Gatsby’s murder.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
In their final conversation, she accuses Nick of being a "bad driver" who deceived her about his honesty.
Who is Jordan Baker?
Gatsby's boyhood schedule was written inside the cover of this wild-west book.
What is Hopalong Cassidy?
Complete the famous final line of the novel: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into..."
What is "...the past"?