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A full-novel review of plot, characters, symbols, narration, style, and themes in The Great Gatsby.
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Four events from the novel: Nick visits the Buchanans, Myrtle's apartment party, Gatsby's first on-page party, Daisy's tea with Gatsby. Which comes second?
Before Nick ever speaks with Gatsby, what rumor about Gatsby circulates at his party?
At the end of the first chapter, what does Nick see Gatsby doing across the bay?
Which event happens before Gatsby asks Nick to arrange tea with Daisy?
At Nick's cottage, why is the rainy tea with Daisy important to the plot?
After Gatsby and Daisy reunite at Nick's cottage, where does Gatsby take them?
Why does Gatsby stop giving parties and replace his servants before the Plaza confrontation?
On the trip into New York in Chapter 7, which switch helps Myrtle misread who is in which car?
What immediately follows the Plaza Hotel confrontation in the main chain of events?
Why does George Wilson go to Gatsby's house after Myrtle's death?
Who attends Gatsby's funeral besides Nick, servants, and the minister?
By the novel's end, what does Nick decide to do after Gatsby's death and his break with the East?
Gatsby buys a house across the bay, gives parties, and asks Nick for a tea. What is the whole sequence for?
What is Nick's family connection to Daisy?
What does Tom's relationship with Myrtle reveal about him?
Why does Myrtle pursue Tom rather than remain content with George Wilson?
What does Meyer Wolfsheim's connection to Gatsby mainly suggest?
Dan Cody matters to Gatsby because Cody is the man who ___.
Why does Gatsby insist after the accident that he will say he was driving?
What does Jordan Baker's careless driving conversation with Nick reveal about her?
Why does Daisy ultimately remain with Tom after the Plaza scene?
Nick calls Gatsby's dream incorruptible even while seeing his corruption. What relationship does that create?
What does the green light most directly symbolize for Gatsby in the first chapter?
What is the valley of ashes in the novel's symbolic geography?
The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg look down over which setting?
In the contrast between East Egg and West Egg, East Egg mainly represents ___.
Gatsby's crowded parties mostly function as what recurring motif?
What does the hot weather on the day of the Plaza confrontation help intensify?
Cars recur throughout the novel most strongly as symbols of ___.
Why does Daisy cry over Gatsby's shirts in Chapter 5?
At Nick's tea, Gatsby nearly knocks a clock off the mantel. What does that moment suggest?
What does Gatsby's unused swimming pool near the end help mark?
What kind of narrator is Nick Carraway in relation to Gatsby's story?
Nick tells the story after returning west and thinking back. What does that structure allow?
Nick says he is inclined to reserve all judgments, yet he judges the East harshly. What tension does this create?
Why does Fitzgerald delay the full story of James Gatz until after Gatsby becomes famous to the reader?
Jordan's flashback to Daisy and Gatsby in Louisville mainly serves what structural purpose?
Nick does not personally witness every crucial event, including what happens inside Wilson's mind. What effect does that have?
The novel opens with advice from Nick's father and ends with Nick's judgment of the East. What does that frame emphasize?
Why does the last chapter widen from Gatsby's funeral to Dutch sailors and the continent's past?
"Her voice is full of money." Who says this, and what does it recognize?
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" What does Gatsby reveal in this line?
Nick tells Gatsby, "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Why is this a turning point in Nick's judgment?
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." What image controls this final sentence?
Daisy says of her daughter, "I hope she'll be a fool... a beautiful little fool." What does the line expose?
Nick says he was "within and without" at Myrtle's apartment party. What does the phrase capture?
Nick says the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are "blue and gigantic" with retinas "one yard high." What technique makes the billboard unsettling?
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." What does "recedes" stress?
Gatsby remakes his name, history, and fortune but still cannot enter Daisy's old-money world. What theme does this develop?
Tom and Daisy leave after Gatsby's death without facing real consequences. What theme does their departure support?
Gatsby's parties are full, but his funeral is nearly empty. What idea does that contrast develop?
Why is Gatsby's demand that Daisy say she never loved Tom impossible for Daisy to satisfy?
What does Myrtle's death by Gatsby's car suggest about the novel's treatment of wealth?
Gatsby's schedule in Mr. Gatz's copy of Hopalong Cassidy shows what about young James Gatz?
Why does the novel make Nick a Midwesterner looking back on the East?
The green light becomes less magical after Daisy stands beside Gatsby in Chapter 5. What theme does that change support?
What does Gatsby's invented identity as Jay Gatsby most clearly show about the American Dream?
How does the novel treat time through Gatsby's dream of Daisy?
At the Plaza Hotel, Tom turns Daisy against Gatsby partly by exposing his bootlegging. What does this suggest about new money in the novel?
Nick calls Tom and Daisy careless people. Which detail after Gatsby's death best supports that judgment about Daisy?
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The Great Gatsby: Nick as Narrator
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