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The Great Gatsby  
Study Questions 
 

Chapter 1 
 
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He look like his great uncle
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He’s a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler
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A sturdy straw haired 
man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner
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Men at New Haven hated 
his guts
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Who is Jordan Baker? What does Nick find appealing about her? 
She was a slender, small breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body 
backward at the shoulders like a young cadet
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How does the tone of Nick’s description of Tom reveal Nick’s feelings about Tom? 
It seems like Nick doesn’t really like Tom much because he is arrogant
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Where are the twin villages of East Egg and West Egg located? Describe the difference between 
them
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Twenty miles from the city, identical 
in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay
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The East egg 
is fashionable
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What are Tom Buchanan’s two claims to fame in college? 
Wealth and skills as a football player
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After telling us about Tom’s college career, Nick describes his personality
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Arrogant, aggressive, wealthy
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What private information about Tom does Jordan Baker reveal to Nick during the dinner party? 
That Tom’s got a woman in New York
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How would you describe Daisy’s state of mind during dinner? What does she say and do that helps 
reveal her conflicts? 
She’s sad and spaced out
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Nick thinks that, given the state of their marriage, Daisy should leave Tom, but it is clear to him 
that she has no intention of doing so
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Chapter Two Questions 
 
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How does he react to Tom’s arrival? 
George Wilson owns the Wilson’s garage
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He was really happy for Tom’s arrival 
because of the car
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How does Myrtle behave as the party progresses? 
Like a high class woman
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Describe the setting of the Valley of Ashes where George and Myrtle live
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Valley of ashes means that the people live 
there because they’re in poverty literally
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I think so, she’s quite harsh
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Compare the setting of the party in this chapter with the setting of the party in Chapter One
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What is 
the significance of this? 
At home she is very calm and wasn’t really loud while at the party she became loud and aggressive
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He got enough so he broke her nose
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It matches the description of him in Chapter one
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Describe the two ways in which Nick differs from the other guests at Gatsby’s party
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The other thing is that Nick met Gatsby
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How do the guests behave?
The guests were wild and acts like upper class people
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Describe (in detail) the events and atmosphere of the party?
The party was massive and extravagant
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How does Nick characterize the guests at Gatsby’s party? What do his characterizations
tell you about how Nick feels about most of these people? Give specific names and
explanations that he assigns to the guests
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conducted
themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks
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She said that she will do anything to win
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Study Questions Chapter 4
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She 
got drunk
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Why does Gatsby want to have tea with Daisy in Nick’s house? Why doesn’t 
Gatsby ask Nick for his favor himself? 
Because Gatsby’s afraid, it’s been years and he thought Nick would be offended
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What did Tom do when he and Daisy returned from their honeymoon? 
 
TOm ran into a wagon on the Ventura road
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After, she didn’t play 
around with the soldiers anymore
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” How does the metaphor of birth help explain what Gatsby’s behavior 
had meant to Nick up to then? 

 
 
It represents his understanding of Gatsby's true nature
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After hearing the truth concerning Gatsby's affection for Daisy, Nick feels as if 
the genuine Jay Gatsby has come to life
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Thanks to Jordan, Nick realizes that Gatsby 
is simply attempting to win Daisy's admiration and recreate his past
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With Jordan in his arms, Nick thinks of a phrase: “There are only the pursued, 
the pursuing, the busy, and the tired,” How do you think this phrase reflects on 
the events of the novel so far? Do you think that Gatsby would agree with the 
phrase? 
 
The pursued is Daisy and Gatsby is the pursuing
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Wolfsheim 
are the tired because they detached themselves from everybody around them
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Chapter 5 Questions
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It’s like they’re getting back together
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How are Daisy and Gatsby different when Nick returns to the house after a half an hour?
They became closer and not awkward just like what happened before Nick left
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What are Gatsby’s feelings by the end of the chapter?
He’s very happy
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think because there’s a secret that Gatsby’s concealing
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What is Gatsby’s dialogue like in this chapter? What does it tell us about Gatsby?
I think that it’s telling us that Gatsby’s arrogant
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Why do you think Daisy sobs when Gatsby shows her his shirts?
Maybe because the shirts are telling her that if she just waited for Gatsby, she could’ve
experience the wealth and be with the man she truly loves
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What is the weather like in this chapter? How does it reflect on the emotional climate of
Gatsby and Daisy?
It’s raining
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I think it meant
that after all the challenges they had gone through, they’re still bound to be together
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In this chapter, Gatsby’s dream seems to be fulfilled
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That Daisy fail to achieve that expectation
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At the beginning of the chapter, the story is interrupted at its most
dramatic point
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It fills the open gaps on the relationship of
Gatsby and Daisy
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What had prompted Gatsby to talk freely to Nick now, when he was
unwilling to do so in the past?
Tom had broken Gatsby down with his mean accusations
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He did everything to find her
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” Enumerate the people “they”
refers to
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They are rotten because they are corrupt and only care about
themselves and status
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What is the compliment that Nick pays to Gatsby? Why does Nick
feel compelled to commend Gatsby?
Nick says, “You’re worth a whole damn bunch”
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Gatsby got his money through illegal means but his dreams of Daisy is
incorruptible
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J
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Wilson views it as the “eyes of God” who sees everything
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Trace the movements of Gatsby and Wilson at the end of Chapter 8
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George killed Gatsby then himself
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Analyze Daisy’s attitude toward her child as evidenced in this chapter and in
chapter 1
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In Chapter 1, she doesn’t really brag about her daughter while in this chapter, she
showed her off to her friends
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I also think that Gatsby didn’t expected Daisy to
move on
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With whom does Tom talk on the telephone early in the chapter? About what?
He is talking to George Wilson about the car he’s selling
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What does Gatsby mean when he says that Daisy’s voice is “full of money”? Why
does Fitzgerald put those words in Gatsby’s mouth and not Nick’s?
The way Daisy is talking is very sophisticated
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think in Gatsby’s mouth because Nick was born in a comfortable family so maybe
he didn’t notice difference in Daisy’s voice
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What arrangements are made regarding the passengers of each car on the trip to
the city? Why?
Tom’s with Nick and Jordan in Gatsby’s car while Gatsby’s with Daisy’s alone in Tom’s
car
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It renews Nick’s faith renews and now he believe Gatsby, he felt that Gatsby’s
not lying about everything
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Does Daisy know what love is? Whom does she really love?
No
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I think she
really loves Tom
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A world of loneliness,
melancholy
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What conclusions does he reach?
Nick can see that Daisy and Tom are in this together, they’re conspiring and they’re
going to blame it on Gatsby even though it’s really Daisy who hit Myrtle
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Explain the last paragraph of Chapter 7
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Chapter 9 

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Gatz’s arrival?

To show that his father is the only one who cared about him
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What is the irony of Mr
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His values are the empty ones
so he was just like him
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What is the pathos of Gatsby’s youthful resolutions?

His resolutions showed how hard he tried to overcome poverty
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Gatz?

Two emotions are sorrow and pride
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Gatz’s comment about James J
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Nick got matured and
accepted the fact that Tom’s really like that
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Why does Nick feel that Gatsby’s tragedy is a contrast between the East and the West?

I think because people on the East Egg thought they were better that everybody else
but on West Egg they weren’t so full of themselves
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For the Descriptive Phrase and Memorable Quote columns, choose direct 
quotes from the novel
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he was a sturdy, 
“Don’t believe 
 
straw haired man of  everything you hear, 
Tom 
thirty with a rather a  Nick
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Arrogant 

Husband of Daisy 
Buchanan and affair 
with Myrtle Wilson 

 

 
Jordan 
Baker 

Myrtle 
Wilson 

always leaning 
aggressively 
forward
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“She was in the 
middle thirties and 
faintly stout, but she 
carried the surplus 
flesh sensuously as 
some women can” 

Meyer 
“A small flat nosed 
Wolfsheim  Jew raised his large 
head and regarded 
me with two fine 
growths of hair 
which luxuriated in 
either nostril” 

“I hate careless 
people
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an elegant young 
roughneck, a year or 
two over thirty, 
whose elaborate 
formality of speech 
just missed being 
absurd
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She loves me
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Mysterious 

Neighbor of Nick 
Carraway,  
 
Had an affair with 
Daisy Buchanan 



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