- characters: gatsby, daisy, tom
- middle western -> East
- Tip of Egg village, peak of rich
- main knows gatsby
- supercilious: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
- effeminate - having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly
- 'best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'
- cried when it was a girl - daisy
Ch2
- Nick mid-west -> New York
- suburbs -> between rich ppl
- gays by next door neighbor
- daisy distant relative, ' women are fools'
- tom, Daisy's husband
- jordan baker -> daisy & tom's friend
- tom w/ Mrs. Wilson -> Myrtle
- bought her a dog
- stay @ apartment
- M wants to play house
- Mr, Wilson wants something from Tom
- Nick 3rd wheel
Ch3
- displacement : wrong place, wrong time for character
- anachronism: out of time
- chronism: time
- use of quotations marks -> irony & humor
- Gatsby -> doesn't want trouble w/ anybody
- jay didn't recognize gatsby
- why isn't gatsby there
- the lonely crowd
- jovial: friendly but rude
- more 'in' than others
- gatsby more formal than others
- vinous: drink on wine
- snobby ppl
- baker: incurable dishonest
- 'few honest ppl to ever know'
