Characters
Time Period of the Novel
1920s
“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Daisy
The Charleston
“Yes, he’s an Oggsford man.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
prohibition, bootlegging.
“I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas Card every year.”
Gatsby
1919
“What’s the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me
Tom
The name given to the group of Americans who became disillusioned by WWI
The Lost Generation
“That’s my Middle West…street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark.”
Nick