The Great Gatsby Characters

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

• Nick

• Myrtle

• Gatsby

• Owl-Eyes

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“God knows what you’ve been doing...You may fool me, but you can’t fool God.”

• George Wilson

• Tom

• Daisy

• Jordan

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

• Henry Gatz

• Michaelis

• Myrtle

• Wolfsheim

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Civilization’s going to pieces...It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”

• Owl-Eyes

• Klipspringer

• Tom

• Gatsby

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I’ve got something to tell you, old sport.”

• Gatsby

• Mr. McKee

• Mrs. McKee

• Nick

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“And now she’s going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away.”

• George Wilson

• Owl-Eyes

• Tom

• Gatsby

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It takes two to make an accident. I don’t like careless people. That’s why I like you.”

• Jordan

• Wolfsheim

• Henry Gatsby

• Daisy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The rich get richer, and the poor get – children...

• Klipspringer

• Jordan

• Gatsby

• Nick

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

• Nick

• Mr. McKee

• Gatsby

• Daisy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It’s his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce.”

• Catherine

• George Wilson

• Klipspringer

• Wolfsheim

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3