The Mystery of Gatsby Minor Characters I Don’t Get It! Who Said / Did It? Uh… JEOPARDY!
The number of years Gatsby had waited to see Daisy again question
What is 5?
The number of years Gatsby had saved to purchase his mansion on Long Island question
What is 3 years?
Gatsby’s real name (first and last) question
Who is James Gatz?
Gatsby was originally from this state. question
What is North Dakota?
The reason Gatsby gives for not drinking much alcohol question
What is because Dan Cody had a problem with alcoholism?
“The boarder” question
Who is Klipspringer?
The man who supposedly acted as Gatsby’s mentor question
Who is Dan Cody?
Meyer Wolfsheim’s profession question
What is a gambler?
The reason some people think that Gatsby “invented” Dan Cody question
What is because Dan Cody is an allusion to Daniel Boone/Buffalo Bill Cody and seems more like an image than a real person?
The reason Nick originally thinks Meyer Wolfsheim is a dentist question
What is because he has cufflinks made of human molars?
What Gatsby asks Jordan to tell Nick question
What is the fact that Gatsby loves Daisy?
The reason Gatsby is so flustered when he first sees Daisy at Nick’s cottage question
What is because he hasn’t seen her for five years / he is in love with her?
What Daisy sobs into at Gatsby’s mansion question
What are his shirts?
What Gatsby shows Daisy that he has kept of her for all these years question
What are newspaper articles / clippings about Daisy?
Why Gatsby is upset when Nick says “you can’t repeat the past” (72) question
What is because Gatsby is trying to repeat the past with Daisy?
She plays golf for a living question
Who is Jordan Baker?
The character who consistently uses the phrase “old sport” question
Who is Jay Gatsby?
The character who said that Daisy’s voice “…is full of money” (42) question
Who is Jay Gatsby?
The character with whom Nick is very surprised when he describes a deal gone bad, then asks Nick to join him on a business venture question
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
The person who outright says that Daisy did not enjoy Gatsby’s party question
Who is Tom Buchanan?
The green light is a symbol of this question
What is hope / a goal?
Why Nick does not believe Gatsby when he says he was “educated at Oxford” question
What is because he rushes to say it, like it’s a lie?
What Tom does for a living question
What is play polo (a polo player)?
The reason Gatsby is so concerned with the length of Nick’s grass question
What is because he wants to impress Daisy when she comes to Nick’s house?
The reason Gatsby doesn’t get the $25,000 Dan Cody promised him question
What is because the woman involved with Dan Cody got the money instead?