The Great Gatsby Connections Activity
Envelope #1
Character: Nick Carraway
Object: The green light at the end of Daisy's dock
Setting: The hotel in the city
Quote: “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool.” Daisy
Event: Gatsby’s party
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Envelope #2
Character: Jay Gatsby
Object: the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg on the billboard sign
Setting: East Egg
Quote: “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” Nick
Event: lunch with Wolfsheim
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Envelope # 3:
Character: Daisy Buchanan
Symbol / Object: Colors white and gold
Setting: West Egg
Quote: “By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too
much these days to suit me.” Tom
Event: Gatsby’s funeral
Envelope # 4
Character: Tom Buchanan
Object: Jewel studded dog collar wrapped in tissue paper in Myrtle’s drawer (chp 8)
Setting: Gatsby’s house
Quote:
“They’re a rotten crowd…. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
Nick
Event: Tea at Nick’s
Envelope #5
Character: Myrtle Wilson
Object: Gatsby’s childhood schedule written in Hopalong Cassidy (chp 9)
Setting: Nick’s cottage
Quote: “You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking at him. I’ll
bet he killed a man.” Party-goer
Event: The Buchanans leave town for a long trip
Envelope #6
Character: George Wilson
Object: Myrtle’s puppy
Setting: Buchanan House
Quote: “Can’t repeat the past?....Why of, course you can.” Gatsby
Event: Tom introduces Myrtle to Nick
Envelope #7
Character: Jordan Baker
Object: Daisy’s car
Setting: Gatsby’s pool
Quote: “I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually drift here
and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” Gatsby
Event: Gatsby has Nick’s lawn spruced up
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Envelope # 8
Character: Ewing Kilpspringer
Object: Wolfshiem’s cufflinks
Setting: Wilson’s garage
Quote: “Of course she might have loved just for a minute…In any case…it was just
personal.” Gatsby
Event: Hit and Run Incident
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Envelope # 9
Character: Meyer Wolfshiem
Object: Myrtle’s bloody nose
Setting: Myrtle’s apartment in the city
Quote: “Oh, you want too much! I love you now- isn’t that enough?” Daisy
Event: Hot afternoon outing to the city
Envelope # 10
Character: Dan Cody
Object: Gatsby’s car
Setting: The Valley of Ashes
Quote: “He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car.” Tom
Event: Owl-Eyes car wreck (chp 3)
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Envelope # 11
Character: Henry C. Gatz
Object: Obscene word chalked on Gatsby’s house by neighborhood boys after Gatsby’s
death
Quote: “The rich get richer; the poor- get children.” Ewing Klipspringer’s song lyrics
Setting: Gatsby’s funeral held at his house
Event: Gatsby fires all his servants (chp 7)