The Mystery of

Gatsby

Minor Characters

I Don’t Get It!

Who Said / Did It?

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JEOPARDY!

The number of years Gatsby had waited to see Daisy again

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What is 5?

The number of years Gatsby had saved to purchase his mansion on

Long Island

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What is 3 years?

Gatsby’s real name (first and last)

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Who is James Gatz?

Gatsby was originally from this state.

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What is North Dakota?

The reason Gatsby gives for not drinking much alcohol

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What is because Dan Cody had a problem with alcoholism?

“The boarder”

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Who is Klipspringer?

The man who supposedly acted as Gatsby’s mentor

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Who is Dan Cody?

Meyer Wolfsheim’s profession

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What is a gambler?

The reason some people think that Gatsby “invented” Dan Cody

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What is because Dan Cody is an allusion to Daniel Boone/Buffalo Bill Cody and seems more like an

image than a real person?

The reason Nick originally thinks Meyer Wolfsheim is a dentist

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What is because he has cufflinks made of human molars?

What Gatsby asks Jordan to tell Nick

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What is the fact that Gatsby loves Daisy?

The reason Gatsby is so flustered when he first sees Daisy at Nick’s

cottage

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What is because he hasn’t seen her for five years / he is in love with

her?

What Daisy sobs into at Gatsby’s mansion

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What are his shirts?

What Gatsby shows Daisy that he has kept of her for all these years

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What are newspaper articles / clippings about Daisy?

Why Gatsby is upset when Nick says “you can’t repeat the past” (72)

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What is because Gatsby is trying to repeat the past with Daisy?

She plays golf for a living

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Who is Jordan Baker?

The character who consistently uses the phrase “old sport”

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Who is Jay Gatsby?

The character who said that Daisy’s voice “…is full of money” (42)

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Who is Jay Gatsby?

The character with whom Nick is very surprised when he describes a

deal gone bad, then asks Nick to join him on a business venture

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Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?

The person who outright says that Daisy did not enjoy Gatsby’s party

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Who is Tom Buchanan?

The green light is a symbol of this

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What is hope / a goal?

Why Nick does not believe Gatsby when he says he was “educated at

Oxford”

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What is because he rushes to say it, like it’s a lie?

What Tom does for a living

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What is play polo (a polo player)?

The reason Gatsby is so concerned with the length of Nick’s grass

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What is because he wants to impress Daisy when she comes to Nick’s

house?

The reason Gatsby doesn’t get the $25,000 Dan Cody promised him

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What is because the woman involved with Dan Cody got the money

instead?