1st hour Gatsby Characters/Setting by https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou en-us 2013-03-27 14:08:03 UTC 2025-12-01 03:42:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Nick Carraway maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8463241 Narrator - 1st person POV

From the Midwest - his father runs a hardware store (7)

Values his father's advice that you shouldn't criticize people - People tell him stuff they wouldn't normally, as a result (5).

went to Yale (7)

1922 - going East to work in stocks/bonds (7)

was a soldier in WWI (7)

]]> 2013-03-27 14:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8463241 Gatsby maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464266 2013-03-27 14:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464266 Nick says Gatsby "represented everything for which [he has] an unaffected scorn" (6). maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464273 2013-03-27 14:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464273 Nick lives in a rundown bungalow (8), which he calls an "eye-sore" (9-10).  Has a view of the water (10) maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464865 2013-03-27 14:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8464865 Setting maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495407 Nick lives in West Egg - "less fashionable" (9)

]]> 2013-03-28 13:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495407 maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495445 2013-03-28 13:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495445 maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495452 Next door is a huge mansion that belongs to Gatsby.

]]> 2013-03-28 13:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495452 Daisy Buchanan maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495507 Married to Tom

Distant cousins with Nick (10)

Charming - Nick says she talks softly to get men to lean into her (13)

Her face was "sad and lovely" (13)

There is an excitement about her, and people are drawn to her (14)

]]> 2013-03-28 13:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495507 Tom Buchanan - blonde and about 30 (11) maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495509 Married to Daisy

Played football at Yale and knew Nick there(10)

very muscular - "cruel body" and "capable of enormous leverage" (11) - "arrogant eyes" (11) - seems intimidating

]]> 2013-03-28 13:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495509 The Buchanans maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495542 Move all the time (10)

Live in a mansion with a huge lawn "overlooking the bay" (11)

The family comes from old money (10)

Have a 2-year-old daughter (14)

]]> 2013-03-28 13:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495542 Jordan Baker - grey eyes, out in the sun a lot (15) maggie_mckeitha https://padlet.com/maggie_mckeitha/bfifbdp9ou/wish/8495846 Doesn't talk to Nick at first, acts aloof and stuck-up when he first meets her (13)

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