Great Gatsby review

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… .

• Myrtle Wilson

• Daisy Buchanan

• Jordan Baker

• Pamela Buchanan

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it — I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that [he] would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

• Nick Carraway

• Jay Gatsby

• Meyer Wolfsheim

• Tom Buchanan

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.

• Nick Carraway

• Jordan Baker

• Myrtle Wilson

• Daisy Buchanan

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

• Ewing Klipspringer

• T.J. Eckleburg

• George Wilson

• Meyer Wolfsheim

I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, 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.

• Meyer Wolfsheim

• George Wilson

• Dan Cody

• Ewing Klipsringer

[She] instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.

• Catherine

• Jordan Baker

• Myrtle Wilson

• Daisy Buchanan

Aside from learning the bond business, Nick went East to

• woo Jordan

• visit Daisy

• escape an engagement

• start over after the war

What does Daisy say she wants for her daughter?

• a happy marriage

• to be smart and kind

• to be a beautiful fool

• to be famous

Tom tells Myrtle he cannot leave Daisy because

• Daisy is dying.

• Daisy is Catholic.

• they have an open marriage.

• Daisy is blackmailing him.

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

• most people showed up uninvited

• Nick hates Gatsby

• Nick doesn't drink

• Nick is neither rich nor famous