Gatsby's Characteristics
Good Bad
Friendly: "Oh, hello old sport" (Fitzgerald, 89).
Has true love for Daisy: "he hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy" (Fitzgerald, 91). Ambitious: "Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever" (Fitzgerald, 93). |
Materialistic: "My house looks well, doesn't it?" (Fitzgerald, 89).
Dishonest: Gatsby: "It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it." Nick: "I thought you inherited your money." Gatsby: "I lost most of it in the big panic-the panic of the war" (Fitzgerald, 90). Impatient: "I can't wait all day" (Fitzgerald, 95). (As he waits for Daisy at tea). Gatsby doesn't value friendship: Nick: "They had forgotten me. Gatsby didn't know me now at all" (Fitzgerald, 96). Stuck in the past: "Here's a lot of clippings-about you" (Fitzgerald, 93). Self Centered: "I'd like to show her around" (Fitzgerald, 89). |