Great Gatsby Character Chart Page 2
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‘I enjoyed looking at her..a slender, small-
• Nick’s lover
Jordan Baker
breasted girl’; ‘a…charming, discontented face’
• Professional golf player
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‘self-sufficiency’
• Cynical
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‘throwing her body backward…like a young cadet’
• Beautiful
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‘yawned Miss Baker’
• Dishonest
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‘intense vitality’
• Tom’s lover
Myrtle Wilson
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‘more violently affected moment by moment’
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Energetic; strives for something
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‘…as though she had choked…in giving up the
better
tremendous vitality she had stored so long’
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‘blond, spiritless man, anaemic’
• Exhausted
George Wilson
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‘Wilson neither heard nor saw’ (after M death)
• Emotionally broken
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‘He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.’ (Tom
• In love with Myrtle
of Wilson)
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‘stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-
• bespectacled
Owl Eyes
eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk’
• drunk
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‘He shrugged his shoulders.’ (after car ‘crash’)
• eccentric
• Linked to theme of ‘eyes’ / Dr
Eckleburg
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‘ “boarder” ‘
• freeloader
Klipspringer
• immoral & shallow
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‘tiny eyes in the half darkness’
• immoral
Meyer
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‘his eyes….roved very slowly all around the room’
• involved in organised crime
Wolfsheim
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