Setting
The "less fashionable" of the two, this is the place Nick and Gatsby call home for the summer.
What is West Egg?
The full name of the narrator of The Great Gatsby
What is Nick Carraway?
This is why Nick drives over to East Egg in Chapter 1.
What is to have dinner with Tom and Daisy?
This is the symbolic meaning of the green light.
What is something you deeply desire?
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What is the American Dream?
This is the word used for the ban on the sale and production of alchohol.
What is Prohibition?
This dark, bleak landscape is home to many working class New Yorkers.
What is the Valley of Ashes
The name of Nick's mysterious next-door neighbor - often seen staring across the water and "trembling"
What is Gatsby?
This is what Nick sees Gatsby reaching for across Long Island Sound at the end of Chapter 1.
What is the green light?
This is the color used most prominently in Chapter 2 to describe the Valley of Ashes.
What is gray?
This is the word used for the "New Women" of the 1920s, often wearing more masculine fashions and entering into more traditionally "male" spaces.
What are Flappers?
This is the name of the New York borough where Nick, Gatsby, Tom & Daisy all live.
What is Long Island?
A famous golfer, Nick meets this person in Chapter 1 on a visit to East Egg.
Who is Jordan Baker?
What is he is hoping Tom will sell him a car?
“The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter”
Personification
This is the global historical event that influenced the Roaring Twenties and in which Nick and Gatsby both participated
What is World War I?
This is where the massive party is thrown in Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby
What is Gatsby's mansion?
This is the name of the woman who Tom is having an affair with in the city - neither of them can STAND the person they're married to!
What is Myrtle Wilson?
What does Tom do to Myrtle at the end of Chapter 2? Why?
He breaks her nose because she mentions Daisy
The auditory (sound) imagery used to describe this character's voice makes her seem alluring, engaging and mysterious.
Who is Daisy?
This is the name of the invention that became a status symbol in the 1920s - even flashier versions serve the same purpose in modern times!
What is the automobile?
This is the year that the main story of The Great Gatsby is set in.
What is 1922?
This is the nickname given to the strange man we meet in Gatsby's library in Chapter 3 - he simply cannot believe all those books are REAL!
What is Owl Eyes?
What reason does Myrtle give for marrying George Wilson?
Myrtle says she married George Wilson because he was "reliable" and could provide for her, though she is clearly unhappy in the marriage.
How is the "valley of ashes" described, and what does it symbolize?
The "valley of ashes" is described as a desolate, grim industrial landscape, which symbolizes the moral and social decay underlying the wealthy characters' lives.
This is the industry that Nick comes to NYC to participate in.
What is the "bond business" or stock market?