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Gatsby Short answer
Novel test prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When asked about her daughter, what does Daisy say? | Daisy says, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." |
| What are the "eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg"? | They are on a billboard, apparently close to George B. Wilson's garage, near the valley of ashes. |
| What does Jordan tell Nick about Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom? | She tells him that Daisy and Gatsby had a romance. Rumor had it that Daisy tried to see Gatsby off to war, but her family would not let her go. Soon after, she married Tom. They seemed to be happy, but then Tom had a mistress. |
| What has Gatsby turned Daisy into in his own mind? | She was larger-than-life person. "The vitality of his illusion has gone beyond Daisybeyond everything." |
| What is Daisy's opinion of Gatsby's party? How does it affect him? | Daisy does not like Gatsby's party. It is too much like a amusement park. When Gatsby figures out what she thinks, it disheartens him |
| What does Gatsby want from Daisy? | He wants her to admit that she never loved Tom, that she always did and does still love Gatsby, and he wants her to leave Tom for him. |
| What happens on the way home from New York? | Gatsby and Daisy are driving home together in Gatsby's car. Daisy is driving to help calm herself. At Wilson's place, Myrtle runs out into the road. Daisy runs into her with Gatsby's car and sees that she has been hit, |
| How do Wilson, Tom, Nick, and Gatsby react to Myrtle's death? | Wilson feels guilty as though he is responsible for her having the affair Tom's first instinct is to protect himself by telling Wilson that the yellow car was not his. He thinks of little else and does not want to hear the details of the accident scene. |
| What is the book that Henry Gatz shows Nick? Why is it important to the novel? | a copy of Hopalong Cassidy with one of Gatsby's personal schedules in it. Gatsby's planning, his desire to work to get ahead, characteristics are classically American, which on a symbolic Gatsby from being character to representing American spirit. |
| What does Nick say about people like Daisy and Tom? | He says they were careless--they smashed things and creatures and retreated back to whatever kept them together, and they let other people clean up the mess they had made. |
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