Symbols
Characters
Key Ideas
Vocabulary
East Egg vs. West Egg
100
This represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. He associates this with Daisy and reaches towards it in the first chapter.
What is the green light?
100
He achieved his wealth in organized crime (including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities).
Who is Jay Gatsby?
100
These occur in the hopes that Daisy will come.
What are Gatsby's parties?
100
Characterized by extreme care and great effort.
What is conscientious?
100
Old money.
What is East Egg?
200
It represents the social and moral decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
200
He travels to New York to study the bonds business.
Who is Nick Carraway?
200
Both Tom and Daisy have one.
What is an affair?
200
Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return.
What is reciprocal?
200
Where the Buchanans live
What is East Egg?
300
This represents God staring down upon American society as a moral wasteland.
What are the Eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg?
300
Se is the single goal and main motivation of Gatsby's dreams.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
300
The only person who came to Gatsby's funeral other than Nick?
Who is Gatsby's father?
300
A slight suggestion or vague understanding.
What is an intimation?
300
New money.
What is West Egg?
400
Nick compares this to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers.
What is the green light?
400
She is hit by Daisy in Gatsby's car.
Who is Myrtle?
400
The only thing Gatsby wants.
Who is Daisy?
400
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
What is supercilious?
400
Where Gatsby and Nick live.
What is West Egg?
500
It symbolizes the plight of the poor.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
500
He kills Gatsby and then takes his own life.
Who is Wilson?
500
It changes people.
What is money?
500
A literary technique that serves as a story within a story.
What is a frame story?
500
Where East and West Egg are
What are New York/Long Island?
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