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1
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Give one example of how Nick describes the people who went to Gatsby’s parties that summer:

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‘Flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near’
‘Strangled his wife’
‘They came to gamble’

2
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What does Gatsby’s car have?

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‘Labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns’

3
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What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?

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‘Son of some wealthy people in the Middle West - all dead now’
‘Educated at Oxford’
‘Lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe’
War

4
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What does Nicks think that suggests his viewpoint of Gatsby has changed?

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‘I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him’

5
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How does Gatsby justify his elaborate story?

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‘A photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers’ from Oxford

6
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On the way to NYC how does Nick describe it?

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‘Rising up across the river’

‘White heaps and sugar lumps’

7
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How is the time period reflected by Nicks observation of other cars on the bridge?

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‘Driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl’

8
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Wolfsheim is described as a …

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‘Small, Flat-nosed Jew’

9
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Wolsheim has an …

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‘Expressive nose’

10
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What makes Wolfsheim seem unreliable?

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He says that Jordan is a ‘great sportswoman’ whom would ‘ never do anything that wasn’t right’
He also says that Gatsby ‘would never so much as look at a friends wife’

11
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What makes Nick suspect that Gatsby gained his wealth illegally?

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Gatsby says that Wolfsheim is a ‘gambler’

12
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What did Wolfsheim do in 1919?

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‘He’s the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.’

13
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How does Jordan recall her first meeting with Daisy?

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‘I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me’

‘I admired her the most’

14
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In Jordan’s account of Gatsby and Daisy’s love before the war, how does she describe Gatsby’s love for Daisy?

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He looked at Daisy ‘in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time’

15
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What did Tom give Daisy on the day before their wedding?

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‘a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars’