Character |
Descriptive Phrase
|
Memorable Quote
|
Best Quality
|
Worst Quality
|
Nick Carrway |
Narrator |
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever
known." |
Honest
|
Sometimes too easy-going
|
Daisy Buchanan |
"Her face sad and lovely with
bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth..." |
"... that's the best thing a girl
can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." |
Voice
|
Inability to make up her mind
|
Tom Buchanan |
"..he was a studry, straw haired man of thirty
with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner, two shining,
arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him
the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward." |
"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let
Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's
the idea you can count me out..." |
Sometimes he cares for Daisy
|
Abusive, adulterer
|
Jay Gatsby |
"...an elegan young rouchneck,
a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just
mussed being absurd." |
"Can't repeat the past? Why
of course you can!" |
Earnest
|
Bootlegger
|
Jordan Baker |
"She was a slender, small-breasted girl with
an erect cairrage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward
at the shoulders like a young cadet." |
"It takes two people to make an accident." |
Beautiful
|
Dishonest
|
Myrtle Wilson |
"She was in the middle thirties
and faintly stout, but she carried the surplus flesh sensuously
as some women can. |
"I can say the name if I very
well like to! Daisy, Daisy, Daisy!" |
Full of life and energy
|
Plays George as a fool, adulterer
|