The Great Gatsby Study Guide

The Great Gatsby Study Guide.

Characters:

1. Nick: Narrator, Cousin of Daisy.
2. Gatsby: Rich Bootlegger, In love with Tom Buchanan’s Wife, Daisy, killed by Wilson.
3. Myrtle: Tom’s Mistress, run down by Daisy
4. George Wilson: Myrtle’s devoted husband and a grease monkey mechanic, commits suicide.
5. Wolfsheim: Affulent crime lord and bootlegger, very wolflike personality.
6. Mr. Henry Gatz: Gatsby’s “Dead” Father.
7. T.J Eckleburg: a billboard that symbolizes someone is always watching you.
8. Daisy: Tom’s Wife, very shallow, matierialistic and spoiled, Nick’s cousin.
9. Tom: Myrtle’s boyfriend, Daisy’s husband.
10.  Jordan: Tennis Player, pathological liar and love interest.\

Setting:

1. West Egg: New Money
2. East Egg: Old Money
3. New York: Party Central
4. The Valley of Ashes: Stuck in the middle.

Symbols & Colors:

1. The Valley of Ashes:  Being stuck in the middle, dead dreams.
2. Gatsby’s death car: Hazard, warning.
3.  Myrtle’s death: Futility of Dreaming.
4. The Green Light: Gatsby wanting Daisy.
5. Old Money v. New Money: Old Money is like royalty and prestige and pedigree, New Money are the young bloods and new found wealth.
6. Gatsby’s Mansion: Success, wealth, and over accomplishment or compensation.
7. Gatsby’s Death: the Death of the American Dream.
8. Daisy’s name: She was happy and beautiful and wealthy.
9. Yellow: Hazard, Warning and Jealousy.
10. White: Wealth and false purity.
11. T.J Eckleberg’s billboard: Someone is watching you always.
12.  The broken clock: time is running out.

The Facts.

1. Tom
2. He killed someone and he is the nephew of a Kaiser
3. Nick
4. A leech and someone who basically lives at Gatsby’s Mansion
5. A medal
6. He was broke.
7. She got drunk and said she changed her mind before the wedding.
8. Shirts.
9. Reality
10. Gatsby’s real name.
11. Dan Cody’s wife scammed her way into his fortune.
12. Because she didn’t have a good time.
13. He fires servants and stops partying.
14. ?
15. Full of laughter and wealth
16. She calls Owl Eyes Revolting.
17. To get away from her husband and I assume back to Tom
18. A nice girl with lots of boys.
19. Tom
20. He said is was a story of the west because the main characters: Tom, Daisy, Jordan etc are from the West.
21. Careless People. He calls this that because he says the ruin lives and use their money to protect them.