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Gatsby Characters
Character List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jay Gatsby | particularly close to Nick. Dated Daisy five years before the start of the novel; has an affair with her during the novel Rivals with Tom for Daisy's love In the car with Daisy when Daisy runs Myrtle over Killed by George |
| Nick Carraway | Friends with Tom Buchanan from college Lives next door to Gatsby A second cousin of Daisy’s Jordan’s boyfriend during the book, though they break up near the end Meets Myrtle and George through Tom |
| Daisy Buchanan | Second cousin to Nick Dated Gatsby five years before the novel opens; has an affair with Gatsby In an unhappy, but stable, marriage to Tom Friends with Jordan from childhood Kills Myrtle in a hit and run car accident |
| Tom Buchanan | Knows Nick from their days at Yale Married to Daisy Friends with Jordan through Daisy Rival to Gatsby Patronizes George Wilson’s garage Having an affair with Myrtle |
| Jordan Baker | Friends with Daisy from childhood Friends with Tom through Daisy Meets Gatsby during one of his parties; arranges for Gatsby to meet Nick and thus reconnects Gatsby to Daisy Dates Nick |
| Myrtle Wilson | Married to George Having an affair with Tom Run over and killed by Daisy |
| George Wilson | Married to Myrtle Trying to buy Tom's car for resale Meets Nick through Tom Kills Gatsby in revenge for Myrtle's death, then kills himself |
| Dan Cody | a millionaire who befriended James Gatz, hired him to work on his yacht, and taught him how to be Jay Gatsby. Cody tried to leave Gatsby his fortune, but Cody's wife managed to claim the inheritance. |
| Ewing Klipspringer | one of Gatsby's party guests who ends up living in Gatsby's mansion full-time. plays piano to entertain Daisy After Gatsby's death, Klipspringer refuses to come to the funeral, calling Gatsby's house only to collect his tennis shoes. |
| Owl Eyes | another of Gatsby's party guests who wears glasses that look like owl eyes. He is floored by the furnished library in Gatsby's mansion, and by the fact that none of the books has been read. Owl Eyes is the only party guest who attends Gatsby's funeral. |
| Meyer Wolfshiem | a gangster who fixed the 1919 World Series, gave Gatsby a job at the end of WWI, and became Gatsby's business partner and the source of his immense wealth. Wolfshiem's loyalty ends with Gatsby's death, and also refuses to come to the funeral. |
| Henry C. Gatz | Gatsby's father, a shabby and poor man who is in awe of his son's accomplishments. He comes to Gatsby's funeral after reading about his death in the newspaper, and shows Nick a self-improvement schedule that Gatsby had written as a boy. |
| Catherine | Myrtle's sister guests of the party in a Manhattan apartment. She roots for Tom to leave Daisy she gives evidence that Myrtle has never had an affair, police report about the car accident that killed Myrtle leaves the Buchanans out. |
| Michaelis | the owner of a coffee shop near George Wilson's gas station who overhears Myrtle and George fighting just before her death, an increasingly unhinged George about the fact that the billboard of the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg isn't God. |
| Pammy Buchanan | the toddler daughter of Daisy and Tom Buchanan, who is mostly raised by a nanny, according to upper-class custom. Because she serves as visual proof that Daisy has had a life outside of Gatsby, Gatsby finds her presence extremely unnerving. |
| TJ Eckleburg | the billboard's eyes are a watchful God. Wilson doesn't go to church, and thus doesn't have access to the moral instruction that will help him control his darker impulses. Still, it seems that Wilson wants God, or at least a God-like influence, |
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