Characters
Setting
Literary Devices
Literary Analysis
Test your Knowledge
100

Myrtle's Sister

Who is Catherine? 

100

The home of T.J. Eckelberg

What is the Valley of Ashes? 

100

Nick writes, “The only completely stationary object  in the room was an enormous  couch on which two young  women were buoyed up as  though upon an anchored  balloon” (Fitzgerald 8). 

What is a simile? 

100

This is how Nick feels during dinner with the Buchanans.

What is uncomfortable and overwhelmed?

100

The city where Tom and Daisy lived before moving to East Egg. 

What is Chicago? 

200

A professional golfer & Nick's crush

Who is Jordan? 

200

The less fashionable, but still rich egg

What is West Egg?

200

“This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm ... where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke, and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”(Fitzgerald 23).

What is metaphor or imagery? 

200

This is the mood in the valley of ashes.

Dreary & depressing

200

These two characters both graduated from Yale. 

Who are Nick and Tom? 

300

A photographer at the apartment party in Chapter 2

Who is Mr. McKee?

300
Nick attends a party here with Tom and his mistress

What is Tom's apartment? 

300

“The air is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names” (Fitzgerald 40).

What is personification? 

300

This is the reason Fitzgerald spends so much time describing the Valley of Ashes. 

To juxtapose the setting with the glamour of East/West Egg. 

300

This story popped up in Newspapers after Daisy and Tom's honeymoon. 

When did Tom get in a car crash with the hotel chambermaid? 

400

The husband of Tom's mistress who owns a garage.

Who is George Wilson? 

400

Gatsby stares at this from across the bay

What is the green light?

400

Daisy exclaims, “I’m p-paralyzed with happiness”

(Fitzgerald 8).

What is hyperbole? 

400

Why does Fitzgerald include all of the details in the following descriptions of Gatsby's party: 

“Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves...At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden...”

How does this description mirror Gatsby’s meticulous preparations and highlights the extravagance that goes into each party, to demonstrate that Gatsby is clearly putting on a show?

400

Nick turns this offer from Gatsby down.

What is a job offer to make some money on the side?

500

A man in the library who doesn't think Gatsby exists

Who is Owl Eyes?

500

Gatsby takes Nick here to meet Wolfsheim

Who goes out to lunch? 

500
Nick writes, “I was within and without,simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”
(Fitzgerald 35).

What is paradox? 

500

What does the following description show about Gatsby's party: “...girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups, knowing that someone would arrest their falls...”?

How is the atmosphere reckless at Gatsby's party? 
500

This is the name of the book that reveals Tom holds a racist/bigoted world view. 

What is The Rise of the Colored Empires?