The Great Gatsby

​The Great Gatsby

Harlem Renaissance

Speakeasies

Flappers/Modern Woman

Jazz Age

Roaring Twenties

Flappers/Modern women

Prohibition/Bootleggers

"American Dream"

​1920s

Setting : Long Island/NYC 1920s

Jay Gatsby

Myrtle Wilson

George Wilson

Nick Carroway

Jordan Baker

Meyer Wolfsheim

Owl Eyes

Klipspringer

​Tom Buchanan

Daisy Buchanan

Main Characters

Multiple Choice

Who's the author of The Great Gatsby?

• Ernest Hemingway

• Langston Hughes

• William Shakespeare

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

Multiple Choice

What decade does the novel take place during?

• 1910s

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1940s

Match

Match the following locations to what they represent

• New Money

• Old Money

• Land between East and West Egg

West Egg

East Egg

Valley of the Ashes

• West Egg

• East Egg

• Valley of the Ashes

Poll

Which major character do you like the most in the novel so far?

• Gatsby

• Daisy

• Nick

• Tom

• Jordan

Poll

Which major character do you like the least in the novel so far?

• Gatsby

• Daisy

• Nick

• Tom

• Myrtle

• Narrator: Nick Carraway

• Went to Yale with Tom Buchanan and 2nd cousin of Daisy

• Buchanans are a very wealthy established family

• Tom is a former athlete and he and Daisy have a 2 year old child, Pammy.

• Tom is cheating on Daisy and the woman calls the house twice.

• Jordan Baker, a famous golfer, is introduced as Daisy's friend. Daisy jokes about them getting together that summer.

• When Gatsbys name is brought up, Daisy is more attentive to the converstation.

​Chapter 1

Important Quote - Chapter 1

Who said it?

“It’ll show you how I've gotten to feel about – things. 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, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'" (1.116-118)

Multiple Choice

Who said the previous quote?

• Daisy

• Myrtle

• Jordan

• Tom

• Nick describes the "Valley of the Ashes" as the unpleasant land between East and West Egg.

• There's a billboard of an eye doctor - Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

• Tom and Nick are going there to meet Myrtle Wilson, Tom's Mistress.

• George Wilson owns an auto repair shop

• Tom gives Myrtle a signal to meet them in the city where he buys her a puppy and they go to an apartment to party.

• There's also a conversation about how Myrtle married down socially,.

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​Chapter 2

Multiple Choice

What happened at the apartment party in chapter 2

• They had tea

• Daisy caught Tom cheating

• Tom punched Myrtle and broke her nose

• There was a fire

Nick describes the decadent and elaborate parties that Gatsby hosts all summer - filled with people that were not invited.

​* Nick gets an invitation to a party. While he's there he meets the "owl-eyed" man in the library.

Nick meets Gatsby at the party and is surpised to see they are at a similar age

Gatsby and Nick are going to go up in the hydroplane the next day and Jordan says she has "tantalizing" news about Gatsby.

* nick and Jordan hang out more mid-summer. She is rumored to have cheated in a golf tournament and she's a bad driver.

​Chapter 3

Important Quote - Chapter 3

Who said it?

"I hate careless people," she tells Nick. "That's why I like you."

Multiple Choice

Who said the previous quote?

• Daisy

• Jordan

• Gatsby

Symbol: Green light

"[H]e 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 at the end of a dock."

If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”

Multiple Choice

What does the green light symbolizes in the novel?

• The "unattainable dream"

• Gatsby's dream of Daisy

• The American Dream

• All of the above

Poll

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