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?
Water is used as a symbol to develop this theme.
What is the culture clash between classes or class segregation?
Gatsby uses this short phrase often to address people.
What is old sport?
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
What is "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 does the MidWest represent in the book?
What are family values/morality?
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?
Acceptable answers:
What is industrialism/consumerism?
What is the working 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?
Meyer Wolfshiem is an example of this theme.
Corruption (of the 1920s).
The person who kills Gatsby.
Who is George Wilson?
What symbolizes the idea of God watching over the world in the play?
What is 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?
What is the American Dream?
Gatsby served in Europe during this war.
What is WWI?
What does the green light symbolize in the play?
What is Gatsby's American Dream or hope to be with Daisy? (either answer is acceptable)
This party-goer plays the piano and lives at Gatsby's house.
Who is Klipspringer?
This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up before moving to New York.
What is Louisville?
The name of two social classes called who are in conflict with one another throughout the novel.
What is old vs. new money?
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
What is that she never loved Tom?
What (or who) is the color yellow associated with?
What is new money?