Fitzgerald Facts
What was Fitzgerald's final work of fiction called?
What is the Last Tycoon?
Where does the group meet up and rent a room in chapter 7?
Where is the Plaza Hotel?
Who described Gatsby as "a bootlegger and criminal in business with Meyer Wolfshiem?"
Who is Tom?
Who said this: “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before?"
Who is Daisy?
What does Nick feel for Gatsby’s father in Chapter 9?
What is profound pity?
Who would Fitzgerald fall in love with in his later years?
Who is Sheila Graham?
Fill in the blank: "Instead of being the warm center of the world, the ____ ____ now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe."
What is the Middle West?
Who is described as "Large, physically imposing, and from an “enormously wealthy” family, and he seems fully confident in his own brilliance even as his words and thoughts suggest someone of limited intelligence?"
Who is Tom Buchanan?
Who said: "I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. ‘He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong."
Who is Tom?
What increased for F. Scott Fitzgerald after his play bombed?
What is his drinking increased?
What economist/sociologist was Fitzgerald drawn to?
Who is Thornstein Veblen?
Where did Jordan and Daisy grow up?
Where is Louisville?
How does Nick describe Gatsby in the early pages of the novel?
What is: Though representing “everything for which I have an unaffected scorn,” still managed ultimately to be worthy of Nick’s tendency to hold out hope for people.
Who said: "Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!"
Who is Mrs. Wilson?
Where was Dwight Eisenhower F. Scott Fitzgerald's platoon captain?
Where is Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas?
What, paraphrased, did Lionel Trilling say about Fitzgerald?
What is: "He could create characters who represented the most important moral concerns of the nation?"
Where is East Egg?
Who is ultimately portrayed as a victim in the novel, someone who ends up broken because of the carelessness of the wealthy?
Who is George Wilson?
Who said: "I don't like mysteries, and I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want. Why has it all got to come through Miss Baker?"
Who is Nick?
What did Gatz do without a plan for how to achieve his fantasies?
What is he worked on Lake Superior as a clam-digger and salmon-fisher; tried to go to college for a few weeks but dropped out “dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny” and ultimately returned to Lake Superior where he met Dan Cody?
Who saw critical praise of The Great Gatsby as proof that Fitzgerald could do more than just observe the follies of youth?
Who is Edwin Clark?
Where does Gatsby say Montenegro is located?
Where is the Adriatic Sea?
How does Nick describe Jordan Baker?
What is fit, tan, attractive, and, most importantly, “incurably dishonest?"
Who said: "Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool. They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey."
Who is Miss Baedeker?
What cities did F. Scott Fitzgerald work on "The Beautiful and Damned" in?
Where are Connecticut then again in New York?