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Great Gatsby: Characters

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‘he had vanished’

• protagonist

Jay Gatsby

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‘period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender

• wealthy (‘new’ money)

silk’

• mysterious

•

‘He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy’ (when

• in love with Daisy

first re-united)

• desperate for money & social

•

‘stretched out his arms toward the dark water…a

status

single green light’

• ambitious & determined

•

‘he felt married to her’

• immoral

•

‘Jay Gatsby…sprang from his Platonic conception

• vulgar

of himself’

•

‘I am one of the few honest people that I have

• narrator

Nick Carraway

ever known.’

• city worker

•

‘privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men’

• confidant to others

•

‘When I came back from the East…I wanted the

• honest

world to be in uniform’

• tolerant / open-minded

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‘I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous

• cousin of Daisy

feel of it’

• conflicting feelings about New

•

‘I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that

York society

act as brakes on my desires’

Daisy

•

‘low, thrilling voice’

• wealthy (aristocratic)

Buchanan

•

‘bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth’

• charming & beautiful

•

‘I’m pretty cynical about everything’

• affectionate

•

‘I hope she’ll be a fool’

• shallow & false

•

The basic insincerity of what she had said’

• fickle & disloyal

•

‘Her frightened eyes told that whatever

• vacuous & lacks maternal feelings

intentions, whatever courage she had had, were

• amoral / immoral?

definitely gone.’

•

‘it’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch

• wealthy (aristocratic)

Tom Buchanan

out’

• disloyal (affair with Myrtle)

•

‘ “Never heard of them,” he remarked decisively.’

• hypocritical (angry with D’s affair)

•

‘hovering restlessly’

• powerful (physically &

•

‘compelled me from the room as though he were

metaphorically); violent

moving a checker to another square’

• dismissive

•

‘hard mouth and a supercilious manner’

• dominant / bully

•

‘arrogant eyes’

• sexist & racist

•

‘a cruel body’

• restless; bored

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‘I’ve got a nice place here’

Great Gatsby Character Chart

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