Gatz shows nick gatsbys old book that has a list of

Gatz shows Nick Gatsby’s old book that has a list of Gatsby’s goal/his schedule
- Gatz, Nick, and Owl-Eyes are some of the few people who went to Gatsby’s
funeral
- after funeral, Nick is haunted by East and he moves back to the West
- Baker is engaged to another man
- Nick runs into Tom; Tom tells Nick that he was the one who told Wilson where to
find Gatsby
- characters
- Nick Carraway - Minnesota // Midwest
- lives in West Egg
- moves to NY to learn bonding business
- educated at Yale in 1915
- father owns hardware business
- fought in war
- Jay Gatsby - North Dakota
- from farming family
- original name James Gatz
- mentor Dan Cody died
- met Daisy when training Louisville, in love with her for past 5 years
- pursues gaining wealth to try and win Daisy back
- received military decoration from Montenegro
- Tom Buchanan - Chicago
- lives in East Egg
- educated at Yale
- family is suuuuper rich
- arrogant, well-built, racist, sexist, controlling, demanding
- Daisy Fay - Louisville
- lives in East Egg
- met Gatsby in Louisville
- Miss Jordan Baker -
- golf player
- Daisy’s childhood friend
- George B. Wilson
- gets physically sick when he learns his wife is cheating; gets more sick
when she dies
- Myrtle Wilson

- Meyer Wolfsheim -
- Jewish
- illegally sells alcohol with Gatsby
- fixed the World’s Series back in 1919 - gambler
- Owl Eyes -
- stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles; drunk
- talks about books at Gatsby’s party with Nick
- Klipspringer - “boarder”
- freeloader who takes advantage of working for Gatsby
- calls about pair of tennis shoes; doesn’t want to come to funeral
- Catherine
- slender, worldly girl of about 30; red hair, pottery bracelets
- Mr. McKee
- pale, feminine man, just shaved, respectful, photographer
- Mrs. McKee
- shrill, languid, handsome horrible
- Michaelis
- young Greek
- Henry C. Gatz - Gatsby’s father
- solemn old man, helpless, dismayed
- essay prep // themes: how a character is affected by the past and how that’s significant to
the author’s argument
- intro: 1922, roaring 20s, Gatsby = obsessed with past, narrator intro, Daisy
- the past haunts us even as we continue into the future
- the past is unattainable; it’s impossible to repeat the past
- Gatsby’s obsession with the past dooms him, seals his fate
- pg. 109 - “She didn’t like it” “unutterable depression” “She used to be able to