Characters
This character "'had some woman in New York'" [which] was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book."
How much money did Gatsby inherit from Dan Cody?
What is $25,000?
Where do Daisy and Jordan experience their "White girlhood"?
What is Louisville, Kentucky?
In Chapter 1, Nick Carraway comes upon his mysterious neighbor and observes, "I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except ______, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of the dock." What does Nick "distinguish"?
What is a "single green light"?
This character insists on saying, "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!... I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-"(Chapter 2)
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
This character states, "I hate careless people, and that's why I like you" to Nick Carraway.
Who is Jordan Baker?
Nick pays the equivalent of $1437.31 in today's rental market. How much does he pay in 1922?
What is $80?
Fitzgerald describes this home as, "A small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath. The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles."
What is Myrtle and Tom's 158th St. apartment?
What does Daisy's "white dress and little white roadster" from Chapter 4 symbolize?
What is purity?
What is 1915?
Nick Carraway describes this character as ""A slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white."
Who is Myrtle's sister, Catharine?
Nick Carraway observes, "My house was at the very tip of the Egg only fifty yards from the sound and squeezed between two huge places that rented for _____ or _____ thousand dollars."
What is $12,000 or $15,000?
Nick Carraway speculates that "Gatsby sprang from the ________ or the Lower East Side of New York."
What is the swamps of Louisiana?
This symbol from The Great Gatsby and this 2017 Lorde song share the same name.
What is "Green Light"?
Gatsby served in this division during the war.
What is the 3rd Division?
In Chapter 6, Fitzgerald describes this character as " a man named _____ and a pretty woman in a brown riding- habit who had been there previously."
Who is Sloan?
How much does the dog that Tom buys for Myrtle cost?
What is $10?
According to Chapter 1, Gatsby's mansion is modeled on this architectural building
What is the Hotel de Ville in Normandy?
In Chapter 5, what does Gatsby show off to Daisy in an attempt to present himself as a refined and sophisticated individual?
What are his "beautiful shirts"?
What cocktail do Nick, Tom, and Wolfshiem drink at the 42nd Street "cellar"?
What are highballs?
Fitzgerald describes this character as "A man in a long duster" who "had dismounted from the wreck and now stood in the middle of the road, looking from the car to the tire and from the tire to the observers in a pleasant, puzzled way."
Who is Owl-Eyes?
In chapter 3, how much does the dress Daisy was planning on wearing but had to get it altered cost?
What is $265?
When Nick Carraway is in New York City for his job as a bond man, where does he like to do his work? (Hint:not the office)
What is the library?
"Luckily the _____ took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head." What symbol does Fitzgerald use to represent the Daisy and Gatsby's complicated past?
What is the broken clock?
Gatsby requests this composer's work, "________'s Jazz History of the World" to be played at his party.
Who is Vladimir Tostoff?