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Who is Jordan Baker?
She is beautiful, dishonest, cynical, and self centered.
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Who is Daisy?
"I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
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What is Gatsby's house?
"Your place looks like the World's Fair."
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What is the green light?
Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future.
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What is the Jazz Age?
The time period of The Great Gatsby.
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Who is George Wilson?
He is the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the Valley of Ashes.
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Who is Gatsby?
"Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!"
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What is the Valley of Ashes?
A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens...
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What is gray?
The color of dreariness; lack of life and spirit.
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What is cousins?
Daisy and Nick are...
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Who is Owl Eyes?
The bespectacled drunk, found astonished at Gatsby's library full of books.
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Who is Nick?
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
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What is the Buchanan's house?
A cheerful red-and-white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
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What is East Egg?
Old money that has been passed down from generation to generation.
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What is bootlegging?
What Tom believes Gatsby is, and how he got his wealth.
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Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
A prominent figure in organized crime.
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Who is Jordan?
"It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people."
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What is Wilson's garage?
The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.
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What is the Valley of Ashes?
The plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.
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What is James Gatz?
Jay Gatsby's real name.
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Who is Dan Cody?
He mentored Gatsby when he was young.
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Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
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What is East Egg?
Wealthier and more elite than West Egg.
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What is the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckelburg?
God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland.
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Who is Jordan Cohen?
The person portraying Daisy throughout the end of our film.
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