Great Gatsby Reveiw

Summative Book Study

The person who bought Gatsby his first decent clothes and introduced him to a new money lifestyle

dan cody

Before they were married, Tom gave Daisy this gift.

pearls

The night before her wedding , Daisy was drinking and clutching this.

letter from gatsby

When Gatsby is with Daisy in Louisville, he looks at the sidewalk and sees that it resembles a -----.

ladder

Nick and Tom attended this school.

yale in new haven

This character is described as supercilious for talking down to his wife, mistress, and friends.

tom buchanan

This character says that due to his father’s advice, he tries to reserve judgment and remember that other people have not had his same opportunities.

nick carraway

This character says s/he is “very cynical” and that the best thing a girl can be in this world is “a fool, a beautiful little fool.”

daisy buchanan

When Nick first meets this character, she makes him privy to the secret of Tom’s affair.

jordan baker

Nick suspects this character of something sinister after hearing rumors that he is nephew or cousin of the Kaiser.

gatsby

Said, “Can’t repeat the past? Of course you can.”

gatsby

Says upon receiving a compliment on her dress, “It’s just a crazy old thing,” she said. “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”

mrytle wilson

"You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person."

jordan baker

Said, “God sees everything.”

george wilson

"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction." 

nick

A symbol that urged Gatsby to pursue his dream

the green light

A motif is a recurring element in a work of literature. In this novel, three different --- occur in first three chapters.

parties

A dominant theme of the book is characters trying to achieve this.

american dream

This symbolizes Gatsby’s anonymity, and is compared to an invisibility cloak.

soilder’s uniform

This place symbolizes simplicity, family, and wholesomeness.

the midwest

State where Gatsby grew up

north dekota

The location of Tom and Daisy’s mansion

east egg

The original home town of Daisy and Jordan

louisville

The area where many of the “new money” people reside.

west egg

The setting where George and Myrtle Wilson live.

valley of ashes

Like many of his characters, the author was from this region in the US.

midwest

The author was once told by an old girlfriend, “Rich girls don’t marry ----”

poor boys

Name of Fitzgerald’s wife who inspired the southern belles of his novels.

zelda

Time period in the US was alcohol was made illegal.

prohibition

1920’s

Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was known for fancy----.

clothes

Wore cuff links made from human molars

meyer wolfsheim

A Yale graduate and WWI veteran

nick carraway

An optometrist from the Queens area

Dr. T.J. Eckleberg

Man who basically lives with Gatsby, plays the piano, and asks Nick for his shoes when he hears that Gatsby has died.

Klipspringer

Left Gatsby money in his will, but his wife managed to take it from Gatsby.

dan cody

The HE in the following statement:

"His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him."

gatsby

The speaker of the following line:

"It takes two to make an accident."

jordan baker

The speaker of the following passage:

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

jordan baker

The literary device of this passage:

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

irony

The speaker of this line.

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

nick

A symbol for Gatsby failing to recognize time.

mantle clock

This color symbolizes new money or fake gold.

yellow

This person symbolizes the Buchanans’ marriage and the impossibility of Gatsby’s dream

Pammy Buchanan/ Daisy and Tom’s daughter

The person is compared to a holy grail, an enchanting object one pursues for fame or immortality.

daisy

This object from Gatsby’s father symbolizes Gatsby’s determination and goals for the future.

Gatsby’s schedule and list of resolves

City where Gatsby lies about being from

san francisco

The first college briefly attended by Gatsby

st. olafs

The Valley of Ashes symbolizes and foreshadows this

death and the deaths of George and Myrtle Wilson?

Places Tom and Daisy have lived and traveled in the last five years:

Chicago, Santa Barbara, France, and New York

A symbol of modernism and New Money that Tom finds incompatible with Oxford University.

Gatsby’s pink suit

What city is the Valley of Ashes in?

Queens, NY