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What characters do we see in The Great Gatsby?

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  • Gatsby
  • Nick
  • Daisy
  • Tom
  • Jordan
  • Myrtle
  • George
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Daisy and Jordan
“two young women… CH1

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“two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering”
However when Tom enters they “ballooned slowly to the floor” CH1

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Tom
“a cruel… CH1

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“a cruel body” CH1

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Tom
“as if his sturdy physical… CH1

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“as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory (authoritative and arrogant) heart” CH1

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Daisy
“I hope she’ll be a… CH1

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“I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” CH1

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Jordan
“I’ve been lying… CH1

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“I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember” CH1

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Nick about Gatsby
“Only Gatsby… CH1

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“Only Gatsby… was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn” CH1

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Nick about Gatsby
“there was something ____ about him… CH1

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“there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” CH1

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Daisy
“Gatsby?… CH1

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“Gatsby? demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?” CH1

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Myrtle
“ an immediate perceptible… CH2

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“an immediate perceptible vitlality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering” CH2

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George
“He was a blonde… CH2

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“He was a blonde, spiritless man… When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes” CH2

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Tom
“ Making a short, deft… CH2

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“Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” CH2

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Gatsby’s guests
“they conducted themselves according to… CH3

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“they conducted themselves according to the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park.” “ticket of admission” CH3

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Gatsby
“It was one of those rare smiles… CH3

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“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance” CH3

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Gatsby
“He was never quite… CH4

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“He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand” CH4

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Gatsby
“He stretched out his arms toward… CH1

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[H]e stretched out his arms toward the dark water. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock. CH1

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Gatsby diction
“Then came the war, old sport… CH4
“something very sad…

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“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life”

“something very sad that had happened to me long ago”
CH4

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Gatsby juxtaposition
“Gatsby in a white flannel suit… CH5

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“Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-coloured tie, hurried in. He was pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes” CH5

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Gatsby’s view of Daisy
“his count of… CH5

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“his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” CH5

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Gatsby’s view of Daisy
“Daisy had tumbled… CH5

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“Daisy had tumbled short of his dreams.. because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” CH5

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Gatsby’s backstory CH6
“they were a satisfactory hint of…

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“they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing” CH6

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The Sloanes
“I’m delighted that you… CH6

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“I’m delighted that you dropped in!” As though they cared” CH6

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Allusion to Trimalchio CH7

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“his career as Trimalchio was over” CH7 Trimalchio was a slave who becomes rich through devious means

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Daisy
“What’ll we do with ourselves… CH7

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“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon,”cried Daisy,’and the day after that, and the next thirty years?” CH7

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George
“Wilson looked so sick that… CH7

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“Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgiveably guilty” CH7

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Tom CH7 irony
“The transition from…

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“The transition from libertine to prig was so complete” CH7

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Gatsby argument with Tom CH7
“in her heart…

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“in her heart she never loved any one except me!” CH7

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Tom CH7
“once in a while I…

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“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time” CH7

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separation of the dream and Gatsby
CH7 “only the dead dream…

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“only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away” CH7

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Myrtle death CH7
“Myrtle Wilson, her life _____…

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“Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust.” CH7

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Gatsby CH7
“my presence marred the…

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“my presence marred the sacedness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing” CH7

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Gatsby CH8
“he had committed himself to…

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“he had committed himself to the following of a grail” CH8

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Daisy CH8
“Daisy, gleaming and…

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“Daisy, gleaming and silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” CH8

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Gatsby CH8
“like that ashen…

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“like thay ashen fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees” CH8

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On Gatsby’s death CH8
“ripples that were…

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“ripples that were hardly the shadow of waves” CH8

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Gatsby’s dad CH9
“It was a photograph of…
“He sought..

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“It was a photograph of the house”
“He sought admiration from my eyes” CH9

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Tom and Daisy CH9
“they were careless people…

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“they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money” CH9

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Daisy cynical worldview
‘you see I think everything’s…

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You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow, she went on . . . “Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything . . . Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated! CH1
-significant since her privilege protects her from many difficult truths

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Daisy
‘The ____ girl’

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‘The golden girl’

A Level English Lit Paper 1-The Great Gatsby (6 decks)

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