Characters
This character is a rich man who followed a dream for five years; he is new money.
What is Jay Gatsby?
What are the "Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg" and what do they symbolize?
What is a billboard and judgement?
Gatsby gives huge parties because...
What is Daisy?
Who said this quote: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... . And one fine morning —— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back cease-lessly into the past.”
What is Nick Carraway?
This character is the narrator.
What is Nick Carraway?
What is the green light symbolic of?
What is Gatsby's incorruptible dream?
True or False: Daisy has a daughter.
True
Who said this quote: “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?”
What is Jay Gatsby?
This character is a golf player, and romantically involved with the narrator; cheats.
What is Jordan Baker?
Gatsby's books are symbolic of...
What is "real" / authenticity?
Three characters die in the novel. Who are they?
What is Gatsby, Myrtle, and Wilson?
Who said this quote: “She doesn’t look like her father…She looks like me. She’s got my hair and shape of the face.”
What is Daisy?
This character fixed the World Series of 1919; a gambler and involved in illegal activity.
What is Meyer Wolfsheim?
What is the color gold symbolic of?
What is wealth and death?
How did George Wilson find out who (he believed) was driving the car that killed his wife?
What is Tom Buchanan?
Who said this quote: “‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’”
What is George Wilson?
This character lived in Gatsby's house rent free, only playing the piano for Gatsby when requested. This character called Gatsby's house after Gatsby's death to ask about getting his tennis shoes back.
What is Klipspringer?
What are the white dresses symbolic of?
What is innocence?
What thing do all the characters who die have in common?
They are / were from lower socioeconomic statuses; they would not be considered "old money."
Who said this quote: “Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some re-solves like this or something. Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it.”
What is Mr. Gatz?