Character profiles Flashcards
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Daisy Buchanan
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- Attractive yet shallow
- Gatsby’s former lover
- Married to Tom Buchanan
- Comes from old money (lives on East egg)
- Rather acquisitive
- Nick’s cousin
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Nick Carraway
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- World war 1 veteran
- Yale graduate
- Stockbroker
- Gatsby’s neighbour
- Comes from old money yet lives on West Egg
- From the Midwest
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Tom Buchanan
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- Multi-millionaire
- Daisy’s spouse
- Yale graduate (sportsman)
- Condescending and egotistical
- White supremacist
- Having an affair with Myrtle Wilson
4
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Jordan Baker
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- Professional Golfer
- Daisy’s closest friend
- Privileged ( comes from Old money)
- Dishonest and tends to lie a lot
5
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Meyer Wolfsheim
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- Frequently associated with criminal activity
- Allegedly fixed the 1919 baseball world series
- Jewish gambler
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George Wilson
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- Impecunious (having little or no money)
- Car mechanic hailing from the Valley of Ashes
- Myrtle’s husband however is being cuckolded
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Jay Gatsby
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- Young millionaire
- Bootlegger
- Former lover of daisy Buchanan
- From North Dakota and used to be extremely poverty-stricken
- Has shady connections to the criminal underworld
8
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Myrtle Wilson
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- George Wilson’s unstable wife
- Tom Buchanan’s mistress
- Possesses a fierce vitality
9
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Dan Cody
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- Gatsby’s mentor in the past
- Wealthy yacht owner
- Acquired his fortune from mining
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Minor characters
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- Catherine is Myrtle’s sister
- Henry C. Gatz is Jay Gatsby’s father
- Ella Kay is a woman who prevented Gatsby from inheriting Dan Cody’s fortune of 25,000 dollars by manipulating Cody’s will
