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.

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

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.

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

Owl Eyes

Nick

Jordan

''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.

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

Nick

Jordan

Meyer Wolfsheim

Daisy

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.

Gatsby

Nick

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.

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

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.

Tom

Daisy

Gatsby

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