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Characters
Symbols
Characters II
Plot
Other Information
100
The narrator
Who is Nick Carraway
100
Symbol of hope - on Daisy's dock across the water from Gatsby's home.
What is the meaning of the green light?
100
Killed Gatsby
Who is George Wilson?
100
Summer 1922 - Long Island, NY
What is the exposition - setting?
100
The decline of the American Dream, differences between social classes plus "old" and "new" money, quest for wealth, geography and social values
What are the themes?
200
Occupation of a Bondsman
What is Nick's job?
200
All seeing - eyes of God
What is the T.J. Eckleburg billboard?
200
Was driving the car that killed Myrtle
Who is Daisy?
200
The falling action
What is Daisy's rejection of Gatsby, Myrtle killed, and Gatsby killed
200
The resolution
What is Gatsby's funeral, Nick leaving NY (he changes - grows), Tom and Daisy going away (they remain stagnate - they do not grow)?
300
Shallow, self-centered
Who is Daisy?
300
Symbol of the working class (of labor)
Who is Myrtle?
300
Fixed the World Series
Who is Wolfsheim
300
Gatsby's reunion with Daisy, and his confrontation with Tom
What is the Climax
300
New money vs. old money
What is West Egg vs. East Egg?
400
His wife, Zelda
Who Fitzgerald modeled Daisy after?
400
Dumping ground of coal waste represents failed attempts at the American Dream (the worst of the 1920's)
What is the Valley of the Ashes?
400
The freeloader at Gatsby's mansion
Who is Klipspringer?
400
The Rising Action
What is Gatsby's parties, Nick arranging a meeting of Gatsby and Daisy, hints of Gatsby's corruption
400
True things about Gatsby?
What is Oxford for 5 months, was in WWI?
500
Has old money and is a racist
Who is Tom Buchanan?
500
Lived in the Valley of the Ashes - Represented the failure of reading the American Dream
Who is George Wilson?
500
Incurably dishonest
Who is Jordan Baker?
500
The conflict
What is Gatsby's desire to get Daisy back, the way in which he got rich?
500
At Gatsby's funeral
Who is Nick, Gatsby's dad, and the 'owl-eyed' man