This theme is illustrated by the corruption that surrounds all of the characters in the book who are wealthy or seeking to gain wealth.
What is money is the root of all evil?
100
This person is the narrator of the story.
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
“Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white
Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.”
What is personification?
100
This is the place where the wealth upper class lived. These people have had money for generations.
What is East Egg?
200
This is what the green light represents.
What is Daisy or the American Dream.
200
This theme is illustrated by Gatsby trying disparately (and failing) to get Daisy to say she had never loved Tom and run away with him as though her marriage to Tom had never happened.
What is you can't repeat the past?
200
This character is described as a "rotten driver" and "incurably dishonest.
Who is Jordan Baker
200
“A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags...” (Ch.1)
What is simile?
200
This is the name given to the set of laws that banned the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s.
What is prohibition?
300
This is what the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg represent
What is God (silently watching the immorality of the 20s)?
300
This theme is illustrated by the fact that Gatsby is killed for crimes committed by Daisy (the hit and run) and Tom (the affair). Daisy and Tom pay not consequences for their actions.
What is people don't always get that they deserve.
300
This person bristles at being referred to as "the polo player"
Who is Tom Buchanan?
300
“... twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling...”
What is metaphor
300
This is the name of the city whose industries produced all the waste that fell onto the Valley of Ashes.
What is New York?
400
This is what the Valley of Ashes symbolizes.
What is the moral decay of the 1920s.
400
This theme is illustrated by the way Gatsby invents his identity and leaves behind Jay Gatz or by the way Myrtle loves to dress up in fancy clothes and fill the apartment Tom gave her with luxurious items.
What is some people display false pretenses.
400
This person's voice is "full of money".
Who is Daisy Buchannan
400
“...and then [the breeze] rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.” (Ch. 1)
What is simile
400
This is the only person in the novel to refer to the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg as God.
Who is George Wilson?
500
This is what automobiles symbolize in Gatsby.
What is wealth, power, or recklessness.
500
This theme is illustrated by the way Daisy seems beautiful and alluring on the outside, but inside she is vapid, careless, and selfish.
What is the corruption of the American dream.
500
This person is amazed to find the books in Gatsby's library are real.
Who is Owl Eyes?
500
“‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.”
What is metaphor?
500
This is the famous gambling scandal for which Wolfsheim was known.