4.  Old money section of Long Island (generations of money)  Have social status and follow certain social graces  Snobbish, self-centered; entitled  Secret society: won’t allow anyone to enter from new money or the lower class  Daisy and Tom frown upon West Eggers and Gatsby’s parties  Use others  Tom takes advantage of Wilson and toys with him about selling him a car when his real business is Myrtle  Tom has no intention of leaving Daisy and marrying Myrtle  Don’t accept responsibility for their actions  Daisy doesn’t end it with Gatsby or say goodbye  Daisy and Tom leave for Chicago after’s Myrtle’s death  Tom views himself as the victim (“I cried when I saw those dog biscuits”) and feels no remorse for Gatsby’s death  The East symbolizes corruption of the American Dream

6.  New money section of Long Island  Earned their fortunes – hard workers  Lack social acceptance and social position  Glittering imitation of East Egg  Vulgar rich  Social climbers  Jay Gatsby acquiring his wealth (mansion and belongings) to try to win Daisy  Throws outlandish parties to gain status and get Daisy’s attention  West symbolic of American history and founding principles  End of the novel Nick wants to go back to the Midwest (East corrupt)

8.  The gray, ashy, desolate area between East/West Egg and New York  Stark contrast to the East/West Egg presented in Chapter 1 – goes from life to decay – exemplifies the great (and terrible) divide between rich and poor  Could represent the struggles of the poor  The hopelessness -- those living there lose vitality  Wilson’s business isn’t successful; he’s spiritless & gray  Could represent how the rich exploit the poor  Tom has an affair with Myrtle and has no intention of marrying her  Tom takes advantage of Wilson by dangling the sale of a car in front of him for the purposes of stealing time with Myrtle  The moral decay of characters and their environment  Extramarital affairs, murder

10.  The light at the end of Daisy and Tom’s dock  At the beginning, hope and longing  Hope that Gatsby may get Daisy again  Green can be symbolic of money  Gatsby’s obsession with making money to win Daisy  Attempts to recapture the past (illusion)  Gatsby’s dream is for Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him & they can pretend the last five years never happened & pick up where they left off  At the end of the novel – nothing

12.  The faded, decaying billboard advertisement for an eye doctor  Sees all the moral corruption in the novel  The absence of God  Extramarital affairs, murder, lack of responsibility, recklessness, hollowness, underground crime  Yellow eyeglasses could represent cowardice (fear of seeing/accepting the truth)

14.  In Gatsby’s library, amazed that the books are real and not cardboard  One of the few characters who attends Gatsby’s funeral and marvels at the lack of people  Eulogizes Gatsby as “a poor SOB”  Could represent wisdom

16.  Owl Eyes’ crash, Tom’s crash, Daisy being a careless driver  Represents recklessness, nonchalance, and lack of responsibility of those who feel “entitled”  Gatsby’s yellow Rolls Royce  Represents excess -- worst aspect of America’s worship of material wealth  The yellow “death” car  Myrtle’s inability to be accepted into the class she aspires to  Careless people who ruin lives, retreat into their money, and let others clean up their messes

18.  Created by Gatsby when he was a boy; brought to New York by his father  Represents desire to get ahead, to be successful, to obtain the American dream  Driven to succeed even before Daisy

19.  Cufflinks made from human molars  Brutality, cruelness of the mobsters  Gatsby’s “gonnegtions”

20.  Voice of money  Tradition belonging to the old rich; snobby  Inaccessibility of the old rich  Never marry Gatsby (not her class)

21.  Gatsby knocks it over when he sees Daisy at Nick’s  His attempt to recreate the past, pretend like the last five years haven’t existed, make up for lost time  Falling clock=can’t undo/change the past

24.  Is wearing a white dress in Chapter 1  Daisy’s name – white flower with yellow center  Daisy drove a white car when she was younger  She married Tom because of the $350,000 white pearl necklace  White is absence of color – absence of purity and innocence

26.  “Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine” (43)  Gatsby’s gold tie  Gold could be symbolic of old money, luxury, and materialism  Yellow death car  “Yellow cocktail music” (40)  “Two girls in twin yellow dresses” (42)  Yellow may represent cowardice --

28.  The Valley of Ashes is full of the color gray  Could represent the decay of hope and dreams  Myrtle dies there, Wilson has a breakdown, where Gatsby’s dreams are shattered

30.  Wilson’s blue eyes, blue eyes of TJ Eckleburg  Could represent hope for the future  Blue of Gatsby’s garden at his parties  Fantasy world/illusion – people go to Gatsby’s parties to get away from the real world – he holds his parties to capture Daisy’s attention

32.  The color red is associated with Myrtle  Could represent vitality, liveliness, passion  Violence associated with her death