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Cassidy Miles

Myrtle is Tom’s mistress. She isn't a very big character but she plays an immense role in the story. Myrtle has been married to George Wilson for 11 years and has only ever had an affair with Tom. She's used to a much more poor, lower class life than the others, but it's clear that she wishes for more. This is what draws her to Tom. He’s led her to believe that the only reason they can’t be married is because he can’t divorce Daisy because of her religious beliefs when really she's just one in a long string of affairs Tom has had. Early in the novel Myrtle and Tom get into an argument because she won't stop saying Daisy's name and Tom breaks her nose in frustration. Despite this Myrtle stays in the affair. Eventually her husband learns of the affair and locks her in a room with the plan to move out of state in an attempt to end it. Myrtle then tries to escape and runs toward a cat she believes is Tom coming to take her away so they can be together. Instead it’s Gatsby and Daisy, she is hit by the car and killed immediately. Myrtle's death causes George to break down from grief and leads him to kill Gatsby as revenge.

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Cassidy Miles

Jay Gatsby is Nick’s majorly wealthy neighbor. He is the true main character of the story. Gatsby is famous for simply being rich as well as the lavish parties he throws. Nobody knows where Gatsby came from or who he really is until Nick. There are numerous rumors spanning from him being royalty to have killed someone. In reality, as Nick later learns, he’s really James Gatz and comes from a poor family in North Dakota before he ran away, went to war, and eventually made his fortune. Although he had always wanted to be rich his real motivation was his love for Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy met before he went to war and fell in love instantly. Despite not seeing her for four years after he still loved her and everything he did was for her, including moving to West egg so he could like just across the sound. His world revolves around winning the love of Daisy Buchanan. They begin their affair after re-meeting through Nick at Gatsby's insistence. Convinced that he and Daisy are meant for one another he tries to convince her to leave Tom so they can be together. This leads to an argument between the three that leaves Daisy in a very unstable state emotionally and the death of Myrtle Wilson, which Gatsby claims he did to protect Daisy from the consequences. Though his love for her inspired him to be such a success it was also the cause of his death. His love for Daisy made him willing to cover a murder for her that led to him being killed by Myrtle's husband George. In the end Nick and his father are the only ones to attend his funeral because despite his large parties and his fame no one but Nick and Daisy truly knew who Gatsby was.

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Hailey Rossi

George is the husband to Tom Buchanan's mistress Myrtle. He is an oblivious character and isn't aware of his wife's affair with Tom for quite some time. "I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God (103-106)". He is to dependent on his wife and this is an undesirable characteristic that Myrtle does not like. She finds him annoying and to clingy. Although it appears to us George is a good man in the end he takes a surprising turn and kills Gatsby because he depended on his wife to much and now he was dead because of him, or so he thought. The idea of life without his wife even though she was unhappy and in an affair with another man, made him angry. "He was his wife's man and not his own (136)". He had no idea of what was going on, all he knew was some one was going to pay for Myrtles death and this lead to Gatsby's death as well.

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Hailey Rossi

Tom Buchanan is the husband to Daisy. He is a big "hulking" man, he is loud and has a major mind of his own. In all honesty Tom is a hot head and has no self control. This is showed throughout the whole book, and daisy is unhappy about fits that he has which lead to part of the reason why she did not want to tell him shes leaving him."Self-control! Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife (229)".When he gets up set he flips out completely and ruins everyone's time. Tom is a controlling hot headed character who wants to control everything. He is unfaithful to his wife and when he hears of a possible affair she may be having as well he flips out once more even tho he is the one who always goes off on his little flings with other women and hurts Daisy. Tom is a self absorbed hot-tempered character that changes the cards for Gatsby's and Daisy future.

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Hailey Rossi

Daisy is the young beautiful wife married to Tom Buchanan but once in love with the handsome J. Gatsby. Years ago he had her heart, he went away to war and she grew tired of waiting and Tom scooped her up and took her. However Gatsby returns making Daisy's character internally conflicted with love. How is she to choose between the man shes married to and her forever love for Gatsby. Her character has inner tensions as shes torn between the two men throughout the book. Her heart really lies with Gatsby and she wants to be with him but struggles with the fact she will have to leave her husband and doesn't know how to tell him. "She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago. (79-82)". She struggles with her hidden love for Gatsby but also struggles with the fact she once too loved Tom. She is very undecided through the book until the end when not even she tells Tom about their affair. Daisy's internal struggle for love  was a major issue for daisy and led the the demise of Gatsby and their love.

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Cassidy Miles

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel but, he isn’t the main character. Nick is Daisy’s cousin and was friends with her husband, Tom Buchanan, when they both attended Yale. He is neighbor’s with Jay Gatsby, in a little cabin on West egg surrounded by the mansions of the new money of Long Island. He was raised by his father to “reserve all judgement” and “‘remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’” (pg. 1). Because of his tolerance he is often trusted with the secrets of those around him, such as Tom's affair and Gatsby's love for Daisy Buchanan. He also has a breif relationship with Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Nick has some sort of personal connection with each of the main protagonists and he seems to be in the know with everyone and their secrets making him the perfect person to narrate the story. He begins the novel fascinated with the fun, rich, fast-paced lives of Gatsby, Jordan and the others. As the story progresses he starts to see that everything isn't as spectacular as it seems, that the others use their parties and loose morals to hide the not so great truths about themselves and decides it’s best for him to leave the East coast all together.

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Justice Newell

A character foil is a person that contrasts with another character in a piece of literature. Frequently, the person who is contrasted by a secondary character is the protagonist. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick is often contrasted with the East Egg-ers, namely Tom Buchanan. Nick is from the Mid-West, an area which he describes as having morals and being representative of the past. Tom lives in East Egg, an area where the "old money" of New York lives, an area of lavish, extravagant lifestyles and compromised values. Throughout the novel, the reader understands the crucial differences between Nick and Tom through their mannerisms and the way they treat others. An instance of that is in chapter 3, when Nick describes himself as, " one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (64) The same cannot be said for Tom, however, as he is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. In the end of the novel, after Gatsby's death, it seems as though Nick is the only one of the Egg-ers to not move on from the tragic demise of Jay. The final interaction between Tom and Nick sums up their differences, despite both being from the West, "He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car." (187)
"There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn't true." (187) Nick concludes by rejecting his life in the East, as he finally understands what Gatsby meant when he said that you can repeat the past. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (189)

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Ben Oswald

At the dock on her East Egg estate, Daisy has an eternally flashing green lantern, just visible across the way for Gatsby on West Egg.  For Gatsby, this green light represented the attainability of Daisy, as she is finally just across the bay.  At the conclusion of the first chapter, Gatsby is seen vaguely on his lawn, and "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock ( )." This symbolism persists throughout the novel, as it comes to represent not Daisy but Gatsby's relationship with her. When Jay attempts to rekindle his affair with Daisy, the poor weather blots out his view of the green light. As the afternoon progressively crumbles out of his favor, it becomes clear that since Gatsby has lost sight of the lantern, he has also lost sight of the idea and mystique of Daisy, and their relationship can never return to its former state of mutual enchantment.

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Justice Newell

There are three scenes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" that are critical in understanding and developing the meaning of the tale. The first comes toward the middle of chapter 5, as Gatsby's expectations of Daisy are shattered by her not living up to the "colossal vitality of his illusion." (101) Five years prior to this scene, Gatsby and Daisy had been romantically involved, but torn apart by the war. Gatsby couldn't move on from that point, whereas Daisy had reservations about moving on, but married Tom regardless. It is upsetting to Gatsby, as his entire life was borne from a dream, yet as reality steps in, "His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one." (98)
The second scene comes at the climax of the story, chapter 7. In this section, Gatsby confronts Tom about his wife's true feelings, also saying that, ""She [Daisy] never loved you, do you hear?' he cried. 'She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!'" (137) This scene also shows how things that were once sacred, like marriage and love, are now perverted and immoral; this sets up the idea that Nick longs to be in the west.
The third scene is in the closing pages of the novel. At this point, Gatsby's funeral is over and some time has gone by, Nick then describes his recollection of the story: "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." (184) Nick's assertion that "this was a story of the West" is accurate, as a central idea within The Great Gatsby is the decay and perversion of morals and traditional American values. This also explains the final line in the novel, as well as Gatsby's drive to relive the past; the West is home to traditional American values, the past.

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Ben Oswald

The entirety of The Great Gatsby takes place in Prohibition Era New York or the surrounding boroughs and islands.  This era was a dawning of social liberation and massive wealth, and this has major impacts on the novel's course. Women took up drinking, smoking, dancing and other formerly uncouth activities to become the "Flapper," which allows for the characters of Daisy, Myrtle and Jordan. The loose, sexual persona enables their various affairs and independence throughout. The Long Island portions of the novel are divided into two regions: East Egg and West Egg. West Egg houses the newly rich, from expanding industry or bootlegging like Gatsby, while East Egg is home to the established wealth of those like the Buchanans.  This geographical divide is representative of the social divide present in the novel, as the West Egg is viewed as socially inferior to East Egg despite economic equality.  This prevents Gatsby from completing the climb of the social ladder, and is thus kept at arm's length from his love Daisy. The Valley of Ashes, or Queens, offers a stunning contrast to both of these pillars of wealth, as it is a hub of poverty and home to the Wilson's. From this gray slum springs misery for the leading group in the form of Tom's affair with Valley-dweller Myrtle Wilson and her messy end. The Roaring Twenties time period also allows for the extravagance found throughout the novel, and on which Gatsby relies. With free time and excess wealth, the lavish parties at Gatsby's estate, which he planned to use to open the door to Daisy, received frequent attendance.  Without Prohibition, Gatsby would not have made his rise to wealth through bootlegging, and thus not been able to attain close proximity to Daisy.

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Lauren
Winter brings emptiness, and is when the world is devoid of warmth and life. This marks when Nick moves to this new area. It was before he really even knew anyone. Nick feels out of place and alone during this time period. This is when  Daisy is still living through her difficult relationship, when Gatsby still stands on the other side of the harbor, waiting for a small sign of hope. And really before Nick was brought into all of their conflicts.

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Lauren
Summer is when all of the warmer weather is present. In the book, this is where the climax of the novel is and as Daisy states over and over again, "Its too hot". Indicating that the stress levels of each of the characters is about to boil over. Finally getting to the point when everything blows up and secrets are finally revealed. Tom finally found out about Gatsby's relationship with Daisy, Nick learns that Jordan is a cheat and a liar. As the heat increases, so does the conflict between the characters. This eventually blows up like a forth of July firework and everything breaks. This all leads to the car accident, Gatsby's death, and Daisy's final decision.

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Lauren
Fall is the season of death and decay. For the story it is after the climax of the novel. Daisy and Tom forget about Gatsby, and so does the twisted society that they lived in. All of the conflict is over and swept under the carpet they walk upon. Daisy stays with Tom, as if nothing happend in the beginning."Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. "(page 151). Fall is when the earth is covered in dying leaves, to later be broken down for new growth for the spring. Or as old love dies, so new love can start.

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Liam Szabo

Throughout the story, a central idea about what people will do for love is presented. Before Gatsby left for the war, he and Daisy were very happy together, and they loved each other. Gatsby thought that they would be in love forever. However, once Gatsby left for the war, it appeared as though Daisy had moved on from Gatsby. She married Tom Buchanan, and they seemed very happy together. Once Gatsby returned, he was devastated to find out that Daisy had done this. He develops a new hatred for Tom, and begins to do everything he possibly can to try and get Daisy back. He essentially dedicates the rest of his life to this, because of his desire for love. He becomes very wealthy, and holds parties to make people happy, especially Daisy. If she were unhappy, he was unhappy. He also spends his time learning everything about Daisy, including where she lives. Gatsby said to Daisy, "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay... You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock" (page 98). In this conversation, Gatsby demonstrates how much he loves Daisy. He knows everything about her, and will do absolutely anything to win her from Tom. Eventually, Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy doesn't love her. This was a major conversation, because it shows how desperate Gatsby was to get Daisy back. He was willing to do anything for love. He wanted things to be like they were before the war. Daisy admits that she still loves Gatsby. This makes him very happy, but Gatsby does not live long enough to truly enjoy this relationship. Gatsby actually chooses this fate to protect Daisy from other people, and the law. He doesn't want her to go to prison, so he confesses to killing Myrtle Wilson. This is interesting, because Gatsby spends so much time and effort trying to win over Daisy, but he doesn't actually get to be with her in the end. He just wants her to be happy. Gatsby demonstrates that people will do almost anything for love. It is understandable why Gatsby does this, because it is human nature. Everyone gets feelings like this at some point in life.

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Lauren
Spring is the season of life, and new beginnings. In the story is marks when new love is blossoming. Daisy is reunited with Gatsby, and Nick has found love himself. Later in the story after the climax, it marks renewal of the whole story. Daisy is back with Tom, Nick is alone and on a different path. And Gatsby is old news for everyone. It is as if the whole situation never occurred. When Nick sees Daisy and Tom after so much time, he is appalled with their behavior from what has occurred in their past." They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money... and let other people clean up the mess they made." (page 179). With spring brings new love.. and forgetting the old to jump into another beginning of life. And with this new season, comes the forgetfulness of the past.