Characters
This wealthy socialite is married to Tom Buchanan.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
Much of the story takes place in this famous American city.
Daisy tells Nick she hopes her daughter will be "a beautiful little" this.
What is a fool?
Much of the novel so far has been a question of whether this can buy you happiness.
What is money (or wealth)?
The Great Gatsby takes places in this so-called "Age".
What is the Jazz Age?
This is Jordan Baker's profession.
What is a golfer?
Tom and Myrtle met while in this location.
What is the train?
Tom breaks Myrtles nose for repeatedly doing this.
What is saying Daisy's name?
Nick describes this region of the United States as having relatively loose morals compared to his home.
What is the East?
This law -- since repealed -- forbade the sale and consumption of alcohol within the United States.
What is Prohibition?
Tom played football for this prestigious university.
This desolate area is described as being coated in dust.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
Daisy and Jordan tell Nick a fanciful story about this staff member at the dinner table.
Who is the butler?
Nick describes this location as the "less fashionable" of the two.
What is West Egg?
F. Scott Fitzgerald had a complicated marriage with this woman.
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?
This girl -- a relative of Myrtle -- has eyebrows that give her face a "blurred" quality.
Who is Catherine?
Nick and F. Scott Fitzgerald are both from this general region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
Nick tells us he is inclined to do this, based on some advice his father gave him.
Nick describes himself this way -- "simultaneously ____ and _____" -- to demonstrate his sense of not quite belonging.
What is within and without?
Like many of his characters, F. Scott Fitzgerald struggled with this addiction.
What is alcoholism?
Nick sees Gatsby staring at this distant object after dinner at the Buchanans.
What is a green light?
Myrtle purchases a number of items in the Manhattan train station for this reason.
What is to appear fancier/play a part/pretend she is wealthy?
Nick tells us that life begins all over again during this time.
What is the summer?
Tom references this text by "Goddard" to explain how "civilization is going to pieces".
What is "The Rise of the Coloured Empires"?
Who is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?