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A passage that previews the tone or theme of a work
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Epigraph
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The term applied to those who felt alienated and disillusioned after World War I
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The Lost Generation
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Buys a dog but should never mention Daisy's name
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Myrtle Wilson
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Racist, arrogant and "hulking" ex-football player
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Tom Buchanan
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The narrator of the novel
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Nick Carraway
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The decade during which events in the novel occur
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1920's
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Home to George and Myrtle
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Valley of ashes
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Daisy's most attractive feature
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Her voice
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Where Nick and Tom went to college
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New Haven another term for Yale
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New Money, Location of Gatsby's mansion and Nick's cottage, new money., Represent the "new rich" materialistic, immoral, shallow social group common in the Jazz age. Nick and Gatsby live here.
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West Egg
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Old Money, Location of the Buchanan's home, a more conservative part of New York, no "new rich" people living there, old money.
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East Egg
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Visible from Gatsby's dock, represents his dreams. Chasing dreams.
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The Green light
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The Valley of the Ashes represents...
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Poverty, hopelessness, despair
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An eye doctor who advertises on a billboard
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T.J Eckleburg
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An outgoing, well spirited golf player
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Jordan Baker
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