Characters
This character is the first to reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to Nick.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live.
What is West Egg?
With limited options, women in the novel often rely on this to improve their social standing and security.
What is money or marriage?
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.
What is old sport?
This location symbolizes Gatsby’s wealth, his desire to impress, and the emptiness behind his glamorous life.
What is Gatsby’s mansion?
This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This is the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
This theme explores the gap between dreams and reality, especially seen in Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy.
What is the American Dream?
This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.
Who is Dan Cody?
What could the Valley of Ashes symbolize?
What is the destruction of society/ American Dream and the poorer class?
Poor boy from North Dakota. (real name)
Who is James Gatz?
This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."
What is East Egg?
How do the 1920s play a part in the story?
What is prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, party lifestyle, New York City, The Roaring Twenties?
This person kills Gatsby
Who is George Wilson?
What symbolizes a moral oversight watching over the world in the play?
What is the billboard of Dr T. J. Eckleburg
This acquaintance of Gatsby's fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
This is the first city Gatsby says he was born in.
What is San Francisco
Gatsby is obsessed with this, trying to recreate it with Daisy, even though it can never truly be restored.
What is the past?
Gatsby served in Europe during this war.
What is WWI?
What does the green light symbolize in the novel?
What is Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy?
This party-goer plays the piano and lives at Gatsby's house.
Who is Klipspringer?
Before moving East to start his career in the bond business, Nick Carraway hailed from this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
This theme shows how wealth and social status can create distance between people and prevent true connections, seen in the tension between East Egg and West Egg residents.
What is class and social division?
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
What is that she never loved Tom?
This element in the novel represents the characters’ obsession with appearances and the illusion of happiness.
What is wealth / material possessions?