The Great Gatsby SG
"It was a body capable of enormous leverage- a cruel body." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
Who is it about: Nick. It is possible that it is only a physical description of him or just the nature of Tom.
What is the setting: Tom and Daisy's home
"Her eyes, wide with jealo...
The Great Gatsby SG
"It was a body capable of enormous leverage- a cruel body." - Answer- Who said it:
Nick
Who is it about: Nick. It is possible that it is only a physical description of him or just
the nature of Tom.
What is the setting: Tom and Daisy's home
"Her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker,
whom she took to be his wife." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
Who is it about: Myrtle, who assumes that Jordan Baker is Tom's wife, and is upset.
What is the setting: Wilson's Garage
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn
bunch put together." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
Who is it about: Gatsby. Nick realizes that the people that Gatsby had been
associated with in the past were up to no good.
What is the setting: Gatsby's home, presumably near the lawn
"No, he's a gambler. He's the one who fixed the World Series in 1919." - Answer-
Who said it: Gatsby
Who is it about: Meyer Wolfsheim and what he does.
What is the setting: City or downtown of East Egg
"At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and
everyone knew her name." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
Who is it about: Jordan Baker and why Nick enjoyed her company because of her
fame.
What is the setting: Outside of Gatsby's house
"He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive." - Answer- Who said it: Tom
Who is it about: Wilson, and how he doesn't know about Tom's affair with Myrtle.
What is the setting: Inside the train on the way to the city
"People disappeared, reappeared, made plans for each other, searched for each
other, found each other a few feet away." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
, Who is it about: The people living in society. Society does not let the members live a
true life because they become so wrapped up in believing what society wants them
to believe. They begin to lose who their true selves really are.
What is the setting: In an apartment in East Egg
"Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly
creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden
spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations
from your sight." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
What it is about: A physical description of the valley of the ashes.
What is the setting: The Valley of the Ashes
"That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-that was the
inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the cymbal's song of it.... High in a white
palace the king's daughter, the golden girl...." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
What is it about: Daisy, and how she is, in addition to a lover's obsession, she is also
a monetary obsession as well.
What is the setting: Outside of the Buchanan's house
"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination had never
really accepted them as his parents at all." - Answer- Who said it: Nick
What is it about: Gatsby's parents and it seems as if Jay is embarrassed of them.
What is the setting: Gatsby's home
"Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!" - Answer- Who said it: Gatsby
Who is it about: Daisy. Gatsby wants to reunite with Daisy again like he did in the
past.
What is the setting: A suite in the Plaza Hotel
"The transactions in Montana coppers that made him many times a millionaire found
him physically robust but on the verge of soft mindedness, and suspecting this, an
infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money." - Answer- Who said
it: Nick
Who is it about: Dan Cody, who could have been a multimillionaire from making
deals in metals suggests that he must have a keen intellect, a sharp mind, to have
concluded transactions which earned him so much money. The irony is that the
same "soft-mindedness" and which made him an easy target for women to relieve
him of his wealth.
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