The Great Gatsby Character Review Flashcards

Jay Gatsby

• Protégé of Dan Cody.
• Introduces Nick to Wolfshiem, who is noted for having human molar cuff links.
• Wolfshiem says of Daisy, "her voice is full of money."
• Was a bootlegger.
• Fires servants to prevent gossip.
• Calls everyone "old sport."
• Daisy has an affair with Gatsby.
• Lives in a mansion in West Egg.
• A self-made man longing to be accepted by the social elite.
• Desperate to win back Daisy, the love of his life.
• Was in the car with Daisy when Myrtle was hit.
• Killed by George Wilson.
• Says, "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before."
• Says, "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me."
• Says, "I feel far away from her…It's hard to make her understand."
• Says, "Your face looks familiar. Weren't you in the Third Division during the war?"
• The tragic hero of the novel.
• Doesn't drink at his parties.
• Business partner of Wolfshiem.

Nick Carraway

• Daisy's second cousin once removed.
• Says, "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
• Says, "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
• Narrates the story.
• Dates Jordan Baker.
• Moves from the Midwest to NYC to work as a bonds salesman.
• Ends the novel disenchanted with the old money elite.
• Says, "You can't repeat the past."
• Becomes good friends with Tom, Daisy, and Jordan.
• Friends with Tom Buchanan from college.
• His chauffeur brings him an invitation to Gatsby's first party.
• Says, "They are a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
• Says, "I'll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don't worry."
• Says, "I was in the Ninth Machine-Gun Battalion."
• He was the one that was friends with everyone.

Tom Buchanan

• George Wilson wants to buy his car.
• Played football at New Haven.
• Says, "He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car."
• Says, "It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out for these other races will have control of things."
• Having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
• Lives in a mansion in East Egg.
• A wealthy classmate of Nick's from college.
• Uses his physical and social power to bully others.
• Married to Daisy and is cheating on her.
• The only one who sees through Gatsby's fake "Oxford man" persona.
• Rival to Gatsby.
• Patronizes George Wilson's garage.
• He is having an affair with Myrte.
• Says, "I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over."
• Says, "I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong."
• Says, "Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back."
• He was the one that told George Wilson who's car the yellow car was.
• Man that lives on East Egg.
• Says, "I'd like to know who he is and what he does."

Daisy Buchanan

• Says, "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."
• Says, "I did love him once - but I loved you too."
• A passive and increasingly unhappy woman.
• Was once in love with Gatsby and reconnects with him as a way to escape her reality.
• Second cousin to Nick.
• Friends with Jordan from childhood.
• Kills Myrtle in a hit-and-run.
• Married to Tom.
• Says, "That girl hadn't been invited. They simply force their way in and he's too polite."
• Says, "I've never met so many celebrities."
• Says, "I love it, but I don't see how you live here all alone."
• Says, "They're such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before."
• Says, "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?"
• Says, "You want too much! I love you now- isn't that enough? I can't help what's past."
• Says, "You remind me of a rose, an absolute rose."
• Says, "And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

Jordan Baker

• She was incredibly dishonest.
• Says, "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."
• A professional golf player.
• Dates Nick.
• Is calm, cynical, and self-centered.
• Friends with Tom through Daisy.
• Says, "I'm stiff, I've been lying on the sofa for as long as I can remember."
• Says, "Let's get out. This is much too polite for me."
• Says, "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."
• Says, "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
• Says, "I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did."

Myrtle Wilson

• Lives in the Valley of Ashes.
• The woman who was the victim of the hit-and-run.
• A woman who is dissatisfied with her working-class life.
• Says, "It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like."
• Says, "These people! You have to keep after them all of the time."
• Says, "I want to get one of those dogs. I want to get one for the apartment."
• Says, "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman."
• Says, "All I kept thinking about over and over was 'You can't live forever, you can't live forever.'"
• Married to George Wilson.
• Having an affair with Tom Buchanan.
• A thickish woman who is rather plain in the face but is nicely built.
• A pretentious woman who flaunts her gaudy possessions shamelessly to her friends.
• Lives in the Valley of Ashes.