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The Great Gatsby Questions and Answers 100% Pass Nick Carraway ✔✔The story's narrator who helps Gatsby reunite with Daisy. He rents the small house next to Gatsby's mansion in West Egg. Nick C... arraway's father ✔✔"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." A quote that nicks father told him Owl-eyes ✔✔Drunk man who Nick meets at at Gatsby's party; says the books are real' only one to attend Gatsby's funeral T.J Eckleburg ✔✔The man who's eyes are on the billboard at in the Valley of Ashes Catehrine ✔✔Myrtle's Sister. She eavesdrop on the conversation that is going on. She also says the reason that tom and daisy dont get divorced is because daisy is a Catholic and won't have it. West Egg ✔✔Location of Gatsby's home in the novel The Great Gatsby. "New Money" Daisy Buchanan ✔✔Nick's cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. Kills Myrtle Jay Gatsby ✔✔The rich guy that lives next to Nick in the area of West Egg (poorer compared to East Egg) -He was in love with Daisy. Was willing to take the fall for Daisy in the murder of Myrtle Wilson. He gets killed by George Wilson in the end. Nick was one of his only true friends. Klipspringer ✔✔The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby's mansion, taking advantage of his host's money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he left at Gatsby's mansion. Chester Mckee ✔✔Pale feminine man, a photographer, photographed his wife 127 times. She is crazy East Egg ✔✔Location of the Buchanan's home, a more conservative part of New York, so "new rich" pnople living there, old money Tom Buchanan ✔✔Daisy's immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick's social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. Dan Cody ✔✔Worldly mentor of Jay Gatsby. He took Gatsby under his wing when Gatsby was a young man and taught him much about living adventurously and pursuing dreams. Myrtle Wilson ✔✔George's wife; Tom's mistress; Broke her nose by Tom; plump; killed by Toms car driven by Daisy Henry C. Gatz ✔✔Gatsby's father. He showed up at Gatsby's funeral showing Nick old photos of Gatsby and talking about how proud he was of him. He also showed Nick a book that showed Gatsby's motivations (the schedule) Valley of Ashes ✔✔an industrial zone between NYC and West Egg Jordan Baker ✔✔Friend of Daisy's, golf champ, and attracted to Nick Meyer Wolfsheim ✔✔A gambler who set up the 1919 world series. He did business with Gatsby. It was most likely illegal. Wolfsheim kept offering Nick connections. George Wilson ✔✔Myrtle's husband; owns an auto repair garage; loves and idealizes Myrtle Michaelis ✔✔George Wilson's restaurateur neighbor who comforts Wilson after Myrtle is killed. What ultimately becomes of Nick and Jordan's relationship? ✔✔It fails. Nick and her break things off over the phone and he does not really think too much of it. What is the green light, literally? ✔✔Dock Light at the end of the dock at daisy and tom's house. know the facts of Jay Gatsby's true origins ✔✔From north Dakota, planned out his days how he could improve, dad cared about him alot, he helped out his family Who comes to Gatsby's funeral? ✔✔His Father, Nick, and Owl-eyes On his last night in New York before returning to the Midwest, why does Nick reflect upon the discovery of the new world, America, by the first Dutch sailors? ✔✔Nick's awareness that tolerance must have a limit. He wants the world in uniform, standing at moral attention forever. Hence, the look inland, inward, to the original inspiration of the country. Gatsby's hope is linked to the history of hope that defines us. Like Nick Caraway, we can face our future only if we first recover our past. What are some of Jordan Baker's dishonest acts? ✔✔cheats at golf, When does the billboard of T.J. Eckleburg reappear later in the novel? What does George Wilson seem to confuse it with? ✔✔when myrtle dies. At what point does Nick FINALLY deliver a judgment? "They're a rotten crowd . . . You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." ✔✔at the very end of the novel when he sees tom on the street. Why does Nick want to move to New York after returning from war? ✔✔to learn about buisness ans bonds What phrase does Gatsby say frequently - sort of a "speech habit" - and why is it significant? ✔✔"old sport" nick isnt much older than him but he refers to him as this making him treat nick almost in a childish way Meyer Wolfsheim ✔✔Wolfsheim is a "small, flatnosed Jew"(p.56, l.1) who helped Gatsby making money in the bond business when he first came to New York after he returned from the war. Wolfsheim seems to have a dark past. He supposedly is the one who fixed the World Series Tom's hypocrisy, as he begins to suspect Daisy's affair. Identify particular passages that especially illustrate this hypocrisy. ✔✔tom gets mad when they are at the hotel and he is yelling at Gatsby and Daisy. This is bery hypocritical because he was having an affair with Myrtle yet he forces Daisy to feel guilt and remorce for her feelings toward Gatsby. How does Daisy react when her daughter is born, and why ✔✔Daisy say to her daughter to "come to your own mother who loves you." (123) Before her daughter was born, Daisy felt that MORE? "I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever" ✔✔Nick says this What is significant about the very first moment that Nick sees Gatsby ✔✔hey are at one of Gatsby's parties in Chapter 3. Nick mistakes Gatsby as one of the attendees of the party, until Nick asks, where the host is. Gatsby announces himself as the host and startles nick. The specifics of their location would be at a small table. Nick was with Jordan and her friends at a small table when "a man about [Nicks'] age" asks Nick about his time in the military. The man happens to be Gatsby. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/In_the_book_The_Great_Gatsby_where_is_gatsby_when_nick_speak s_with_him_for_the_first_time#ixzz1FVTKzXem How does Gatsby describe Daisy's voice? What might his statement mean ✔✔Daisy represents not a girl, but money. He hears it in her voice - the voice that rises and falls as the stock market does. The voice that is marked by the 'brand' of money - the special way that monied people spoke in that era (and they did have a lingo all their own and an accent all their own). She is a golden girl. What evidence would support Nick's claim that "Gatsby turned out all right in the end"? What evidence shows how Gatsby was "preyed upon"? ✔✔At the End Gatsby is killed. He never did anything wrong. What preyed upon him was the people who envied his lifestyle. Gatsby got tangled up with Daisy who ended up getting him into trouble when they killed Myrtle. If he hadnt loved her she wouldnt have been driving, thus Myrtle would not have been killed, therefore Wilson would not have murdered him. [Show More]

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