Chapter One Nick Carraway: narrator always inclined to reserve judgements From midwest (Chicago?) Went to college at Yale (New Haven); graduated in 1915.

Chapter OneNick Carraway: narrator

always inclined to reserve judgements

From midwest (Chicago?)

Went to college at Yale (New Haven); graduated in 1915

Was in WWI

Came back; decided to go into the bond business

Arrives at West Egg in late spring 1922

West Egg: the “less fashionable” of the two

“New Money”—people make it suddenly

Nick lives there pretty much by accident

Gatsby lives there too: describe his house

Gatsby’s mansion:

Imitation of a Hotel in Normandy

Other details?

East Egg: the snobbier one“Old Money”—families who have inherited it, sometimes for many

generationsTom and Daisy Buchanan live there

Daisy is Nick’s “second cousin once removed”; Tom knew Nick in college

Describe their house

“Georgian red and white

colonial”

What else?

Nick visits Buchanans

Describe Daisy:

Describe Tom:

Who else is at the Buchanan home?

Jordan Baker---describe her

How do Daisy and Tom get along?

What about the phone call?

--Jordan is a gossip

--Perhaps Daisy is ignoring the affair?

Daisy tells Nick…

• When her daughter was born, she said “I hope she’ll be a fool---that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (What does this say about Daisy?)

• “I think everything’s terrible anyhow…..God, I’m sophisticated.” (Does Nick believe this?)

Nick returns home….

Who does he see? What is this person looking at?

Chapter 2

What is the “Valley of Ashes”?

What about the Eyes?

Identify Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson

Where does Tom insist they go?

Does it even occur to him that Nick might object to this? Why not?