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Tom Buchanan

Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.

Daisy

Baker

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face.

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In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, a lavish area in Long Island, home of the so-called “new rich.” After an awkward dinner with his cousin Daisy, her husband Tom, and their friend Jordan Baker, Tom and Daisy hint that Nick should pursue Jordan romantically. Once home, Nick sees his neighbor Gatsby reaching out toward the water, but all Nick sees is a distant green light.

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Defiant

full of or showing a disposition to challenge, resist, or fight

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I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Explanation: Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter. While not directly relevant to the novel’s main themes, this quote offers a revealing glimpse into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that, to a great extent, does not value intelligence in women.

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Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose.

Wilson

He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome.

Myrtle

ckish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Catherine(Sister of Myrtle)

The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white. Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

Mr. McKee

Myrtles father, old man who likes to photograph everything married to Mrs. Mckee

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On their way into New York City, Nick and Tom stop at George Wilson’s garage located on the edge of the valley of the ashes to pick up Wilson’s wife and Tom’s lover, Myrtle. Tom, Nick, and Myrtle proceed to have an impromptu party at Myrtle’s sister’s Catherine’s apartment with her neighbors. The party grows increasingly wild as the group continues drinking, but it is abruptly ended after Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose for talking about Daisy, leaving Nick, in turn, to take a train back to West Egg.

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''......he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”- That means that he was the lowest of the lowest.

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Dismal-Dismal is a dreary, depressing sort of bad.

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Nick

Tom

Daisy

Gatsby

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Nick attends a party at Gatsby’s mansion where he runs into Jordan. The two overhear numerous rumors and fantastic stories concerning Gatsby, such as him having graduated from Oxford and once having killed a man in cold blood. Later, Nick meets Gatsby and remarks that Gatsby does not drink and prefers to separate himself from the festivities. After, Nick explains that there is more to his life than attending parties, and he proclaims that although Jordan is dishonest, he is still attracted to her.

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''People were not invited—they went there.''

''He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.''

Explanation: This passage occurs in Chapter 3 as part of Nick’s first close examination of Gatsby’s character and appearance. This description of Gatsby’s smile captures both the theatrical quality of Gatsby’s character and his charisma.

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ticket of admission- evidence of a right of entry to a venue or an entertainment event.

eddies of people- captures their random, erratic movements; engendering a sense of disorientation not only in Nick, but also in the reader.

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Novel

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Gatsby

Nick

Jordan

Meyer Wolfsheim

Daisy

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While driving Nick into the city for lunch, Gatsby relates to Nick a series of stories about his life and accomplishments that Nick finds apocryphal and unrealistic. At lunch, Nick meets a shady associate of Gatsby’s named Meyer Wolfsheim, which leads him to believe that Gatsby acquired his wealth through nefarious and illegal means. After lunch, Nick encounters Jordan who tells him about Gatsby and Daisy’s previous relationship, and Nick agrees to set up a tea date with Daisy where Gatsby will attend without Daisy’s knowledge.

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“He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.

Explanation:A bootlegger is one who illegally transports or sells alcohol during the Prohibition era. Tom even claims that he had figured out that Gatsby was a bootlegger when they first met, though he does not explain how he knew this.

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bootlegger- A bootlegger is someone who sells illegal goods.

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Daisy

Gatsby

Nick

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Initially, Daisy and Gatsby’s reunion at Nick’s house is awkward, but after Nick returns after leaving them alone for some time, he finds them elated. Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy back to his house where Daisy is brought to tears by Gatsby’s lavish lifestyle, his collection of English shirts, and how Gatsby has longed for her.

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“Your place looks like the World’s Fair,”

Explanation:f wealth. It gives the reader an idea about Gatsby's mansion and the way way he lives his life. It also portrays the high standards he has.

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receptacles-container that's used for holding or storing things.

scrutinized-to examine something very carefully in order to discover information

disarray-the state of being confused and having no organization or of being messy

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Nick recounts the true story of Gatsby’s life and how he came to gain his wealth. One Saturday night, Daisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby’s parties, even though Tom dislikes and is suspicious of Gatsby, but they leave after Tom makes disparaging remarks about Gatsby to Daisy. Nick finds a distraught Gatsby later that evening and reminds him that he cannot re-create the past he once had with Daisy.

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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

Explanation:In Chapter 6, when Nick finally describes Gatsby’s early history, he uses this striking comparison between Gatsby and Jesus Christ to illuminate Gatsby’s creation of his own identity.

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meretricious-apparently attractive but having no real value.

reveries-A reverie is a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, as if you are dreaming.

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Gatsby

Owl Eyes

Nick

Jordan

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Chapter 7 brings the conflict between Tom and Gatsby into the open, and their confrontation over Daisy brings to the surface troubling aspects of both characters. Throughout the previous chapters, hints have been accumulating about Gatsby’s criminal activity. Research into the matter confirms Tom’s suspicions, and he wields his knowledge of Gatsby’s illegal activities in front of everyone to disgrace him. Likewise, Tom’s sexism and hypocrisy become clearer and more obtrusive during the course of the confrontation. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affairs, but when faced with his wife’s infidelity, he assumes the position of outraged victim.

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"I've heard of making a garage out of a stable,' Tom was saying to Gatsby, ' but I'm the first man who ever made a stable out of a garage." this symbolizes his shallowness as Tom would build a stable for all his Polo horses. He does not need to work, unlike Wilson who survives off working in a garage.

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Daisy, Tom, Gatsby,

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After the day’s traumatic events, Nick passes a sleepless night. Before dawn, he rises restlessly and goes to visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby tells him that he waited at Daisy’s until four o’clock in the morning and that nothing happened—Tom did not try to hurt her and Daisy did not come outside. Nick suggests that Gatsby forget about Daisy and leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses to consider leaving Daisy behind.

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“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,” - The rain at his funeral gives a sense of purification for Gatsby. By calling him blessed, Fitzgerald is saying that the rain is purifying him, just like a baptism. This gives the reader a strange sense of hope while keeping the tone depressing.

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indignantly-in a manner indicating anger or annoyance at something perceived as unfair.

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Nicki, Gatsby, Daisy

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Two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick explains the events that occurred after Gatsby’s murder, how even more outlandish rumors about him circulated, and how only a few people, including Nick and Gatsby’s father, attended Gatsby’s funeral, a stark contrast to the swath of attendees at Gatsby’s parties. Before Nick leaves New York for good, Tom tells Nick that he was the one who told Wilson that Gatsby was the driver and that he is happy that Gatsby is dead. On Nick’s last night in West Egg, he visits Gatsby’s mansion and muses about Gatsby’s dream and aspirations, as well as the American dream in general.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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pasquinade-a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered in a public place.

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Nick, Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, Gatsby's father