Character List
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| Jay Gatsby | show 🗑
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| Nick Carraway | show 🗑
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| show | Second cousin to Nick
Dated Gatsby five years before the novel opens; has an affair with Gatsby
In an unhappy, but stable, marriage to Tom
Friends with Jordan from childhood
Kills Myrtle in a hit and run car accident
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| show | Knows Nick from their days at Yale
Married to Daisy
Friends with Jordan through Daisy
Rival to Gatsby
Patronizes George Wilson’s garage
Having an affair with Myrtle
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| Jordan Baker | show 🗑
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| show | Married to George
Having an affair with Tom
Run over and killed by Daisy
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| show | Married to Myrtle
Trying to buy Tom's car for resale
Meets Nick through Tom
Kills Gatsby in revenge for Myrtle's death, then kills himself
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| Dan Cody | show 🗑
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| Ewing Klipspringer | show 🗑
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| show | another of Gatsby's party guests who wears glasses that look like owl eyes. He is floored by the furnished library in Gatsby's mansion, and by the fact that none of the books has been read. Owl Eyes is the only party guest who attends Gatsby's funeral.
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| show | a gangster who fixed the 1919 World Series, gave Gatsby a job at the end of WWI, and became Gatsby's business partner and the source of his immense wealth. Wolfshiem's loyalty ends with Gatsby's death, and also refuses to come to the funeral.
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| Henry C. Gatz | show 🗑
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| Catherine | show 🗑
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| show | the owner of a coffee shop near George Wilson's gas station who overhears Myrtle and George fighting just before her death, an increasingly unhinged George about the fact that the billboard of the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg isn't God.
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| show | the toddler daughter of Daisy and Tom Buchanan, who is mostly raised by a nanny, according to upper-class custom. Because she serves as visual proof that Daisy has had a life outside of Gatsby, Gatsby finds her presence extremely unnerving.
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| show | the billboard's eyes are a watchful God. Wilson doesn't go to church, and thus doesn't have access to the moral instruction that will help him control his darker impulses. Still, it seems that Wilson wants God, or at least a God-like influence,
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