Claims to be honest and not judgmental but turns out to be unreliable.
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
The main symbol/theme of The Great Gatsby.
What is the American Dream?
100
He received a degree from Oxford, he is the son of wealthy people from the Midwest, and he killed a man
What are some rumors about Gatsby?
100
Gatsby and Nick live here
What is West Egg?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
200
"Her voice is full of money"
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
200
Symbol for God watching over the decay of the nation.
What are the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?
200
Someone who makes or sells alcohol illegally.
What is a bootlegger?
200
Another name for the 1920s.
What is the Jazz Age?
200
A figure of speech in which places, things, animals, or ideas are endowed with human traits or characteristics.
What is personification?
300
Professional golf player
Who is Jordan Baker?
300
The American Dream, Optimism (Hope), Money
What does the green light symbolize?
300
An eye doctor whose billboard overlooks the road to West Egg
Who is Doctor T.J Eckleburg?
300
Young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
What are flappers?
300
Use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
400
“He’s a gambler... He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
400
Represents the moral and social decay of America
What is the Valley of Ashes?
400
Changed Gatsby's life forever, inspiring him that he could become rich and powerful someday
Who is Dan Cody?
400
The road between West Egg and East egg.
Where is the Valley of Ashes?
400
The feeling the reader gets from a story.
What is mood?
500
When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife’s man and not his own.”
Who is George Wilson?
500
Represent wealth, carelessness, and death in The Great Gatsby.
What do cars symbolize in The Great Gatsby?
500
He's been reunited with Daisy; that was the whole reason he threw the parties in the first place.
Why does Gatsby stop throwing parties?
500
"The white palaces of fashionable [houses] glittered along the water"
What is East Egg?
500
Author's attitude towards the audience, the subject, or the character.