Characters
Setting
Plot
Symbols
Theme & Style
100
He fixed the 1919 World Series
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
100
The state where Daisy Buchanan first met Jay Gatsby
What is Kentucky?
100
The main events of The Great Gatsby take place in the summer and fall of this year
What is 1922?
100
This symbolizes the fulfillment of Gatsby's dream
What is the green light?
100
Fitzgerald and Shakespeare return to this theme in many of their greatest works.
What is reality vs illusion?
200
The name of Jimmy Gatz's father
Who is Henry Gatz?
200
His eyes were like ghostly apparations advertising his optometry services in the Valley of The Ashes
Who is T.J Eckleberg?
200
The amount of time that has passed since Gatsby's murder and Nick's rumination on the events in Chapter Nine
What is two years?
200
These symbolize omnipotence and an "all knowing" quality throughout the novel
What are eye glasses? What are spectacles? What are glasses?
200
Fitzgerald frequently uses this literary technique to add depth and resonance to the events in the story
What is foreshadowing?
300
She was one of the inspirations for Daisy Buchanan that F Scott Fitzgerald used in writing The Great Gatsby
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?
300
Gatsby's family headed to this state , where Gatsby briefly attended St Olaf School
What is Minnesota?
300
Myrtle coveted this and it ends up tied to Gatsby's fate
What is a dog?
300
This represents the excess and glamour of the Jazz age. Yet they are also clearly superficial and pretentious.
What is Gatsby's Mansion? What are Gatsby's parties?
300
In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald throws a critical lens onto this aspect of his culture
What is The American Dream?
400
The only person who knew everything about the "death car" and everyone involved in Myrtle's death
Who is Nick Carraway?
400
F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda moved here in the 1920's and it became the insipiration for East Egg and West Egg
What is What is Long Island, New York? What is Great Neck , New York?
400
She cheated Gatsby out of his $25,000 inheritance from Dan Cody and spurred his desire to gain wealth
Who is Ella Kaye?
400
This takes on a symbolic signifigance whenever Fitzgerald focuses on characters and objects
What is color?
400
This theme is most prominently demonstrated through Tom and Daisy Buchanan
What is carelessness?
500
"He was a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome."
Who is George Wilson?
500
This was the name that Dan Cody gave for the yacht that he and Gatsby sailed on together
What is the Tuolomee?
500
The parallel discovery that George Wilson and Tom Buchanan make on the day of Myrtle's death
What is the infidelity of their wives? What is their wives were unfaithful? What is their wives were having affairs with other men?
500
Fitzgerald uses this as a symbol of the inner state of the characters in key moments
What is the weather?
500
Fitzgerald considered this as a title for his novel because he saw a paralel between Jay Gatsby and the hero of this classical Roman novel
What is Trimalchio in West Egg?
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