The Great Gatsby Timeline
This is the state and year in which The Great Gatsby takes place.
What is New York, 1922?
This is Nick's job in The Great Gatsby.
What is a bond salesman?
This document symbolizes Daisy's love for Gatsby. Otherwise, why would she be drenching it the night before her wedding?
What is a letter from Gatsby?
Don't say, "Daisy." This character realizes her mistake when Tom breaks her nose.
Who is Myrtle?
This dance was all the rage during the roaring 20s. You may have just learned how to do this today!
What is the Charleston?
This is the year Gatsby served in the Seventh Infantry.
What is 1917?
Nick's girlfriend back home plays this sport, while Jordan is a professional golfer.
What is tennis?
Whose faded, blue eyes watch over the Valley of Ashes.
What are the eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleburg
Tom convinces this character to find the real owner of the big yellow car... with dire consequences.
Who is George Wilson?
This was the name of underground locations to gather for libations and low, murmured conversations during prohibition.
What is a speakeasy?
This is the state where Daisy and Gatsby share their first kiss.
What is Kentucky?
This is the man in the white car with Daisy in 1917.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
When Gatsby reunites with Daisy at Nick's house, he accidentally nudges this off of the fireplace mantle, symbolically linking Gatsby's desire, and inability, to repeat the past.
What is a clock?
This molar cuffed gangster does business with Gatsby, but can't show up at his funeral.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
The women of this time period were known for their short hair, short dresses, and wild ways. They were also known as this.
What are Flappers?
In 1925, the year The Great Gatsby was published, the book had sold 21,000 copies. Today it sells 500,000 copies annually. This is the approximate number of copies the novel had sold when F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940.
What is 50,000 copies?
This is the list that Gatz wrote in his copy of Hopalong Cassidy.
What are self-improvement goals?
Much to the delight of the Owl Eyed Man during one of Gatsby's parties, these items in the house were, "real, absolutely real."
What are books?
Throughout the text, this character seems more concerned with balancing an invisible object on her chin than feeling empathy for the fate of any of the characters.
Who is Jordan?
In 1919, a team known by this name won the World Series, but they didn't do it without a bit of cheating.
Who are the Black Sox?
This worldwide event helped propel The Great Gatsby from an "unimportant" failure to "America's Greatest Novel."
What is The Great Depression?
This character's chief concern after Gatsby's death is obtaining his tennis shoes.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
This item serves to symbolize Gatsby's military prowess during WWI, and also the credibility of his story.
What is a medal from Montenegro?
Daisy's only hope for this character is that she grows up to be a beautiful little fool.
The roaring 20s are also known by this name, which refers to the rot beneath a shining, gold foil surface.
What is the Gilded Age?