Symbols
Characters
Jay Gatsby
Nick
Quotes
100
The color that symbolizes Gatsby's dreams and his wealth hopelessly tangled together.
Green
100
What is the name of the gangster Gatsby is associated with?
Meyer Wolfsheim
100
What is the name of the "Midwestern" town Gatsby claims to be from?
San Francisco
100
What is Nick's last name?
Carraway
100
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
Jay Gatsby
200
What are three symbols from the novel?
TJ Eckleburg's Eyes, Green Light, Gatsby's Shirts, The Valley of the Ashes
200
What is the name of the man who owns the garage?
George B. Wilson
200
How does Gatsby claim to have earned his money?
owning drug stores
200
What is the line of work that Nick has come East to learn?
bonds
200
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life
Nick Carraway
300
How does Gatsby show his education and wealth?
With his books.
300
Which two historical figures does "Dan Coady's" name harken back?
Daniel Boone "Buffalo Bill" Coady
300
Who was the greatest influence on Gatsby's new persona?
Dan Coady
300
Why is there some ambiguity about Nick's sexuality?
He is interested in Jordan, but also might have had a sexual encounter with Mr. McKee
300
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Daisy
400
What is the significance of TJ Eckelburg's eyes?
They represent an "all seeing being" and the judgement of rich people's actions.
400
Who got all of the inheritance money Gatsby thought he was going to get?
Ella Kaye
400
Gatsby's medal is from?
Montenegro
400
What is the one thing Nick claims to reserve?
judgments
400
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth
Nick Carraway
500
What is the symbol for social and moral wasteland?
The valley of the ashes
500
What is the name of "the boarder?"
Ewing Klipspringer
500
If Gatsby = Fitzgerald, then Daisy =?
Zelda
500
What is Nick's one true virtue which is present throughout the story?
honesty
500
“See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too — didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”
Owl Eyes
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