Great Gatsby review

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That was it. I’d never understood before. [Her voice] was full of money — that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… . high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl… .

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Daisy Buchanan

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Who is described as drifting on forever seeking the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game?

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Tom Buchanan

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Who said: "You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride."

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Nick Carraway

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This was a forlorn hope—he was almost sure that [he] had no friend; there was not enough of him for his wife.

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George Wilson

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Who is described as 'a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon' in Gatsby's bedroom portrait?

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Dan Cody

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Who is described as instinctively avoiding clever, shrewd men and being incurably dishonest?

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Jordan Baker

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Aside from learning the bond business, Nick went East to

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escape an engagement

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What does Daisy say she wants for her daughter?

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to be a beautiful fool

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Why does Tom tell Myrtle he cannot leave Daisy?

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Daisy is Catholic.

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Why was Nick's invitation to Gatsby's party strange?

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most people showed up uninvited