Characters
This character is the first to reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to Nick.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live.
What is West Egg?
The theme "expectations rarely match reality" is best displayed by whose relationship?
Gatsby and Daisy's relationship.
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.
What is old sport?
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
"Her voice is full of money."
This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This is the nickname of the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
What is the importance of the East and the mid-West in the book?
The East is a place of destruction and obsession with wealth; the Midwest is a purer place with a better life.
This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.
Who is Dan Cody?
What could the Valley of Ashes symbolize?
The destruction of society and the poorer class.
Poor boy from South Dakota. (real name)
Who is James Gatz?
This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."
What is East Egg?
How do the 1920s play a part in the story?
Prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, party lifestyle, New York City
This is how Gatsby dies.
Who is George Wilson?
What symbolizes the idea of God watching over the world in the play?
The billboard of T. J. Eckleburg and the owl-eyed man.
This acquaintance of Gatsby's fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
This is the state where James Gatz was born.
What is North Dakota?
How does the American Dream play a part in the story?
Both Nick and Gatsby try to make something of themselves by moving to New York; both are searching for a better life.
What two objects does Gatsby show to Nick to prove his identity in Chapter 4?
A photograph of him at Oxford and a war medal from Montenegro.
What does the green light symbolize in the play?
Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy.
This party-goer plays the piano and lives at Gatsby's house.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up before moving to New York.
What is Louisville?
How do social class play a role in the novel?
Old vs. new money and the stigma attached to both.
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
That she never loved Tom.
How does the color white's meaning as a symbol change in the book?
The color goes from representing purity to representing the death/ending of a dream.