Who's Who
Setting
Fitzgerald's Factoids
Literary Looks
Chapter 5
100

A man who might “drift on forever” in search of “the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game” (Fitzgerald 8)

 Tom Buchanan

100

The “less fashionable” of the two eggs (Fitzgerald 5).

West Egg.

100

What war did the narrator, Nick Carraway, fight in?

World War I (WWI)

100

“Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square” (Fitzgerald 11).

Simile / Metaphor / Indirect Characterization

100

What accidentally falls into Gatsby's lap?

A clock.

200

Second cousin, once removed.

Daisy Buchanan

200

City where Nick visited Tom and Daisy.

Chicago

200

Nick Carraway’s job.

Bonds / The bond business.

200

“[T]he curtains and the rugs and the two women ballooned slowly to the floor” (Fitzgerald 8).

Metaphor / Imagery

200

Daisy cries when she sees Gatsby's collection of ___________.

Shirts

300

“[T]here was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” (Fitzgerald 2)

Jay Gatsby

300

A home “with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool” (Fitzgerald 5).

Gatsby's Mansion

300

Tom Buchanan enjoys this type of animal.

Horses / ponies. 

300

“The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether” (Fitzgerald 14).

Personification

300

Plays piano for Daisy.

Mr. Klipspringer.

400

Rumored to be engaged.

Nick Carraway

400

“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 the ceiling” (Fitzgerald 8).

Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s House.

400

The main subject of the book Tom is reading.

The replacement of white people.

400

“[D]eep summer on roadhouse roofs” (Fitzgerald 20).

Alliteration / Assonance

400

"“I'd like to just get one of those pink __________ and put you in it and push you around.”

Clouds

500

Who is the “balancing girl”? (Fitzgerald 9).

Miss Jordan Baker

500

What may have been flashing at the end of a dock.

Green Light

500

Tom is obsessed with ethnic subgroup from Scandinavia, Finland, and/or Iceland. 


Nordic people.

500

“I could have sworn he was trembling…When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness” (Fitzgerald 21).

Foreshadowing

500

What is described as a "deathless song"?

Daisy's voice.