Jay Gatsby
This is Jay Gatsby's maiden name.
James Gatz
This is Nick's alma mater.
Yale or New Haven
This is Tom's alma mater.
Yale or New Haven
beautiful little fool."
A synonym of absolution, this is when someone is formally released from guilt, obligation, or punishment.
Forgiveness.
Now living in West Egg, Jay Gatsby is far from home, hailing originally from this Middle-Western state.
North Dakota
Nick describes his house as being like this ocular blight.
An eyesore.
Tom's body is described at one point as being comparable to that of a large green Marvel Comics superhero.
Hulking
Daisy is largely inspired by this wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. He even dedicated the book to her.
Zelda Sayre
This is Ruldoph Miller's imagined persona's name.
Blatchford Sarnemington
Gatsby spent a short stint at this college before dropping out when he felt "dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny."
St. Olaf College
Convinced of his own righteousness, Nick charges himself with holding fast to this cardinal virtue.
Honesty
Tom hardly pays attention to her, his mistress's sister.
Catherine
Young Gatsby met Daisy Buchanan when he was stationed at this military base.
Camp Taylor
One of the so-called seven deadly sins, Rudolph comes to Father Schwartz to confess that he feels he has committed it. His poor parents.
Pride
Gatsby is supposedly related to this former German emperor.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Nick's apartment costs him this much.
$80 a month.
Tom blabbers on at dinner in chapter one about a certain book with seemingly racist ideas in it.
The Rise of the Colored Empires by Goddard
Daisy is from this state known, among other things, for horse racing and bourbon.
Kentucky or Louisville, Kentucky
Father Schwartz notices multiple times the rustle of girls from this Scandinavian country.
Sweden
This is how, according to Nick Carraway, Gatsby smiles.
Understandingly.
Known for their saunas, Nick's maid is from this country.
Finland
Nick runs into Tom while at lunch with Gatsby, and this Jewish crook, known for fixing the 1919 World Series.
Meyer Wolfsheim
Gatsby never once refers to her by this, his patented phrase.
Old Sport
Rudolph's eyes are described as being like this musical note, sharply detached or separated from the others.
Staccato