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GATSBY
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Term | Definition |
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Nick Carraway | 1st person narrator; the events are interpreted through his eyes; respresents the middle class |
Jay Gatsby | "New Money;" lives in West Egg and throws extravagant parties |
Tom Buchanan | "Old Money;" lives in East Egg; supercilious, brash, an abusive adulterer; a character that the reader dislikes |
Daisy Buchanan | Tom's wife; Kentucky socialite who was born into tremendous wealth; careless |
Jordan Baker | golfer; somewhat of a love interest to Nick |
Myrtle Wilson | Tom's mistress; lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband, George; desperate to escape the working class |
George Wilson | owns a gas station in the Valley of Ashes; product of the working class and economic hardship; Myrtle's husband |
(Billboard) T.J.Eckelburg | Oculist (eye doctor); his billboard looks down upon the Valley of Ashes; George calls the enormous glasses the "Eyes of God." |
West Egg | New money; Gatsby lives there |
East Egg | Old (inherited) money; the Buchanan's live there |
Valley of Ashes | industrial, working class area; the Wilson's live there |