Characters
This narrator came from the Midwest but is learning the bond business in New York.
Who is Nick Carraway?
The "less fashionable" of the two peninsulas; home to Nick and Gatsby.
What is West Egg?
This is the reason that Tom breaks Myrtle's nose.
What is she won't stop saying "Daisy?"
This is what Gatsby is holding his arms out toward, trembling; it represents his dreams.
What is the green light?
"I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Who is Daisy?
This character has an enchanting murmur, passed her "white girlhood" in Kentucky, and has gotten "quite cynical about everything."
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
The main setting of Chapter 2, where Tom and Myrtle meet for their trysts.
What is Tom and Myrtle's New York apartment?
This person is on the phone when Tom takes a call at dinner in Chapter 1.
Who is Myrtle?
These "eyes" look over the Valley of Ashes, watching and judging, and yet they're faded and obsolete.
What is the billboard of Dr. TJ Eckleburg?
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
Who is Nick?
This "thickish" and "stout" character loves to use others' money to buy dogs, cosmetics, and reading material.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
The "more fashionable" of the two peninsulas, where the Buchanans live.
What is East Egg?
Nick is the only one actually invited to this.
What are Gatsby's parties?
These items in Gatsby's house are real and yet unused.
What are library books?
"You can't live forever, you can't live forever."
Who is Myrtle?
Who is Tom Buchanan?
"--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke..."
What is the Valley of Ashes?
This event at the end of Chapter 3 demonstrates the careless behavior of the wealthy.
What is the car accident outside of Gatsby's?
This advice from Nick's father have given him the basis for his behavior for the rest of his life.
"The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved."
Who is Tom?
This wealthy character has many rumors told about him, but his past and motives are unknown.
Who is Gatsby?
"The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of a ceiling..."
What is Tom and Daisy's house.
What is money?
Tom and Daisy are both unhappy and have no real basis for their existence; their presence in the books demonstrates the attitudes of this time period.
What is Modernism or the Roaring 20s or the Jazz Age?
"Don't give it another thought, old sport... And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning, at nine o'clock."
Who is Gatsby?