Characters
Who does Jordan reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to?
Who is Nick Carraway?
The section of Long Island where Nick and Gatsby live.
What is West Egg?
Prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, and parties.
What is The Roaring 20s?
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address people.
What is "old sport?"
What the "green light" symbolizes
What is Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy?
A place that represents destruction and the disillusionment of climbing the social ladder.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
The characters who are largely obsessed with wealth, status, and material possessions, which often leads to empty, shallow lives.
Who are Myrtle and Gatsby?
The color "yellow" represents...
What is wealth, death, and devastation?
What is the real name of Jay Gatsby?
Who is James Gatz?
This is the section of Long Island associated with "Old Money."
What is East Egg?
The reason for Gatsby's schedule at the end of the novel.
What is pursuing The American Dream/believing America is a meritocracy?
I killed Gatsby.
Who is George Wilson?
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
What is "her voice is full of money?"
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?
Fitzgerald's message about the wealthy elite, particularly Daisy and Tom, who are portrayed as careless people who break things and creatures, only to retreat into their money, leaving others to clean up their messes.
What is moral and social decay?
Gatsby served in Europe during this war.
What is WWI?
I painted the night scene described by Nick at the end of the novel as "a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon."
Who is El Greco?
Who is Henry C. Gatz?
This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up.
What is Louisville?
I represent the progression of women's rights in the novel.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This is what Gatsby wanted Daisy to tell Tom in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
What is "she never loved Tom?"
I am the wealthy wine merchant Gatsby is compared to that echos his rise from poverty.
Who is Trimalchio?