https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7 Use this space to track characters throughout the novel study. en-us 2019-03-07 19:09:35 UTC 2025-11-15 00:33:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339057582 “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (38)]]> 2019-03-07 19:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339057582 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339058732 “Taking hold of my elbow, literally forced me from the car” (25)]]> 2019-03-07 19:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339058732 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339059498 “Though I was curious to see her, I had no desire to meet her—but I did” (25)]]> 2019-03-07 19:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339059498 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339059646 “And if you feel that way about it, maybe I’d better sell it somewhere else after all” [26]]]> 2019-03-07 19:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339059646 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339060873 “Get some chairs, why don’t you, so somebody can sit down” (26)]]> 2019-03-07 19:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339060873 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063201 “I have been drunk just twice in my life...” [30]]]> 2019-03-07 19:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063201 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063916 "Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room, as though he were moving a checker to another square." (13)]]> 2019-03-07 19:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063916 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063998 "I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (19)]]> 2019-03-07 19:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339063998 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339064234 “With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change” [31]]]> 2019-03-07 19:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339064234 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339064772 "Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocate curiosity out of a wan, charming, disconnected face." (13)]]> 2019-03-07 19:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339064772 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339065244 "The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out: 'Oh, is that your suit?' I said. 'This is the first I ever heard about it.' But I gave it to him and then I lay down and then I cried to beat the band all afternoon." (36)]]> 2019-03-07 19:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339065244 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066007  “They oughtn’t to let her run around the country this way” (Page 21)]]> 2019-03-07 19:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066007 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066276 “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (36)]]> 2019-03-07 19:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066276 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066352 "At this point Miss Baker said: 'Absolutely!' with such suddenness that I started - it was the first word she had uttered since I came into the room." (12)]]> 2019-03-07 19:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339066352 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339067467  "I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east, and how a dozen people had sent their love through me."                               "Do they miss me?" She cried ecstatically." (12)]]> 2019-03-07 19:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339067467 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068253 “Borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in” (36)]]> 2019-03-07 19:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068253 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068564 "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since... "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had"" (3)]]> 2019-03-07 19:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068564 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068741 "I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again." (11)]]> 2019-03-07 19:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068741 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068937 “‘I like your dress,’ remarked Mrs McKee, ‘I think it’s adorable.’ Mrs Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain. ‘It’s just a crazy old thing,’ she said. ‘I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.’” (32)]]> 2019-03-07 19:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068937 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068951 “So dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (27)]]> 2019-03-07 19:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339068951 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339069852 "Her face was sad and lovely, with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget." (11)]]> 2019-03-07 20:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339069852 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339070254 “‘We’re getting off,’ he insisted. ‘I want you to meet my girl.’” (25) ]]> 2019-03-07 20:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339070254 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339070964 "Well [The Rise of the Coloured Empires] is a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be... utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." (15]]> 2019-03-07 20:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339070964 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072177 “‘Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling” (19) ]]> 2019-03-07 20:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072177 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072807 "agreed Wilson hurriedly, and went towards the little office, mingling immediately with the cement colour of the walls." (27)]]> 2019-03-07 20:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072807 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072998 “‘Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final,’ he seemed to say, ‘just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.’” (9) ]]> 2019-03-07 20:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339072998 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339073382 “She carried surplus flesh sensuously as some woman can” (25)
-paints Tom as vain ]]> 2019-03-07 20:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339073382 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339073582 "How's business?" "I can't complain," answered Wilson unconvincingly. (26)]]> 2019-03-07 20:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339073582 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339074401 “‘I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking. A little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.’” (8) ]]> 2019-03-07 20:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339074401 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339074491 “Nick, I’m pretty cynical about everything” [19]]]> 2019-03-07 20:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339074491 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339075060 “Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!” [19]]]> 2019-03-07 20:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339075060 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339075343 “She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall” (10) ]]> 2019-03-07 20:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339075343 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339165783 "Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. 'These people! You have to keep after them all the time.' " (33)]]> 2019-03-08 02:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/339165783 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340501901 “I want to see you—get on the next train” (26)]]> 2019-03-12 16:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340501901 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340503207 Terrible place isn’t it—it does her [Mertyl] to get away” (26)
-white knight]]> 2019-03-12 16:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340503207 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340637346 “I’m scared of [Gatsby], I’d hate to have him get anything on me” (32)]]> 2019-03-12 21:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/340637346 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343525298 “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all”. [98]]]> 2019-03-20 19:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343525298 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343526147 “I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people. “[90]]]> 2019-03-20 19:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343526147 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343526466 “‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such... such beautiful shirts before.’” (92) ]]> 2019-03-20 19:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343526466 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528117 “‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand’” (110) ]]> 2019-03-20 20:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528117 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528497 "For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher" (98)]]> 2019-03-20 20:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528497 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528573 “I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life. But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.”[82] ]]> 2019-03-20 20:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343528573 https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343531576 2019-03-20 20:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nairnj/38sr471377t7/wish/343531576