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The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby	comment	The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic social critique, in which The American Dream of Rags to Riches is portrayed as a noble illusion and millionaires as self-absorbed, emotionally bankrupt Rich Bitches. Largely because of this frank but wistful consideration of idealism vs. human nature, it has come to be regarded by many as a Great American Novel.The novel opens with Nick Carraway, "Middle Westerner", First-Person Peripheral Narrator and self-professed honest man. Feeling the need to make his mark on the world, Nick moves to Long Island, New York to get into business. He takes a house just across the bay from the upper crust, including his flighty cousin Daisy and her new husband, ex-college jock Tom Buchanan.He ends up next-door neighbors with Jay Gatsby: an enigmatic man who makes sure to flaunt his wealth to everyone by buying a lavish mansion near Nick's home and throwing completely over-the-top weekly parties to which everyone who's anyone will comeâ€¦ but seeming, himself, mysteriously detached from it all. However, Gatsby has a long past with Daisy Buchanan, and many other, murkier secrets; and Nick finds himself continually thrust into the middle of a highly charged romantic triangle where money, passion, and sheer force of will battle it out, with lives lost and wasted as the result.Required reading in high school for a lot of people.Some sources claim that the novel was actually ghostwritten by Fitzgerald's wife Zelda. Comparing Zelda's bits and pieces of surviving work (she died in a mental hospital fire) and Scott's entire body of work with this text is an interesting experiment and tropers can draw their own conclusions.Does The Great Gatsby have screen adaptations? Do you even have to ask? There's even a video game. And an opera. And at least one play. And an Off-Broadway musical. And a Takarazuka Revue musical. The 1974 film starring Robert Redford and the 2013 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio have their own trope pages. There's also a young adult novel that reimagines the story in high school written by Gordon Korman called Jake Reinvented.The novel officially entered the Public Domain in the United States on January 1, 2021. The full text of the book can be found here.Not to be confused with Gadsby.
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The Great Gatsby / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Great Gatsby / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In a very cynical way, Daisy and Tom. After the confrontation in the hotel, Tom makes clear that he loves Daisy and doesn't care that she had an affair with Gatsby so long as she doesn't bring him home to dinner or force Tom to socialize with him. Daisy then chooses to stay with Tom, and accidentally kills Myrtle, Tom's mistress, by running her over with a car. Tom then tells Myrtle's husband that Gatsby was the one that ran her over (it's implied that Daisy never told him it was really her). In this way, they actually both cause the deaths of each other's lovers, then go on with their married life together.
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The Great Gatsby / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
The Great Gatsby / int_11e0d645	comment	Arguably one of the most famous symbols in literature, the green light represents the literal and emotional separation between Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby will walk to the edge of his dock, and will literally 'reach out' his hand towards the pulsing light in the distance.
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The Great Gatsby / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Great Gatsby / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Meyer Wolfsheim is a thinly-veiled Expy of gambler and mob boss Arnold Rothstein, who, like Wolfsheim, is infamous for fixing the 1919 World Series. Gatsby himself is heavily based on Ohio bootlegger George Remus. Tom mentions a white supremacist author named Goddard and his book The Rise of the Colored Empires, a Shout-Out/Take That! to eugenicists Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard (who was a protegÃ© of the former). (The former's Passing of the Great Race and the latter's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, with introduction written by the former, were highly popular books in 1920s high society, although mostly forgotten today due to their direct influence on Hitler himself.)
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The Great Gatsby / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Great Gatsby / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Meyer Wolfsheim is a shady Jewish gangster who's said to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Although he's apparently based on the real-life Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein, he's generally considered to be a fairly antisemitic caricature.
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The Great Gatsby / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Great Gatsby / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The back cover of the most common U.S. publication of the book these days spoils Gatsby and Daisy's relationship.
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The Great Gatsby / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
The Great Gatsby / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: After Nick confronted Tom about what he said to Wilson that made him kill Gatsby and himself, Tom answers that he accused Gatsby of running over Wilson's wife with his car. Then Nick realizes Tom is sincerely incapable of understanding why this is an evil act:
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The Great Gatsby / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Great Gatsby / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Nick's narration is colored by his perception of Gatsby at this particular moment. Whether that's because he's soft-hearted or just providing some poetic embellishment is up to the reader (and/or the reader's English teacher). Also at one point he joins some friends of Tom for drinks and, as such, tells the audience that he gets drunk and the rest of the night becomes a big blur.
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The Great Gatsby / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Great Gatsby / int_1d2400e9	comment	Early in the book, Gatsby can be seen looking out across a large body of water towards a blinking light located on the end of the dock where Tom and Daisy live. Interestingly enough, the light is green.
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The Great Gatsby / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Great Gatsby / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Gatsby. Charismatic, polite, and charming, but obsessed with self-image and fixated on a Tragic Dream.
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The Great Gatsby / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Great Gatsby / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Gatsby thinks he's in a beautiful epic romance with his dream girl, and believes she will leave her awful husband and fly away with him. Unfortunately, his dream girl is just that.
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The Great Gatsby / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
The Great Gatsby / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: Gatsby is a real millionaire that only seems a Mock Millionaire because He Was Trying Too Hard to seem rich. This is the real reason all the other Old Money richniks in his neighborhood hate him so much.
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The Great Gatsby / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Great Gatsby / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Every rich character in the book, except for Nick. Although Nick comes from a very wealthy family, he works for his own money. Some might argue that, despite coming from old money, he is the only character who has moral values. A central theme of the novel is how the rich throw their money around and do whatever they want, and whenever a mess inevitably ensues they just run away and let someone else clean it up for them.
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The Great Gatsby / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Great Gatsby / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man / Token Good Teammate: Nick is the only rich man with any morals among the idle rich that he encounters. Nick owes it to the fact that, while he was born into money, he still had to work to earn what he has.
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The Great Gatsby / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Great Gatsby / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy ends with her flatly rejecting him, thus rendering all of his work for nothing. And then he dies.
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The Great Gatsby / int_298a9d75	type	Detrimental Determination
The Great Gatsby / int_298a9d75	comment	Detrimental Determination: Gatsby is certainly a Determinator in his pursuit of getting back together with Daisy, but it's a Tragic Dream because she's already married to someone else and largely forgotten about him. Even so, Gatsby keeps trying to recreate the past and win Daisy's affection through sheer willpower, only to be consistently rebuffed to this end. He even ends up dying for it by Taking the Bullet for Daisy.
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The Great Gatsby / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
The Great Gatsby / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Nick suddenly remembers it's his 30th birthday right after Gatsby and Daisy's relationship goes to hell.
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The Great Gatsby / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Great Gatsby / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Completely cynical, with those on the "idealistic" side doomed and those on the "cynical" side evil. (It's not a fun book.)
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The Great Gatsby / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Great Gatsby / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The world of the Idle Rich is depicted as hollow and depressing despite the pretty trappings.
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The Great Gatsby / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
The Great Gatsby / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Nick is the first-person narrator, telling a story about Gatsby. This is especially evident in Chapter 5 where Gatsby and Daisy meet for the first time in years, and Nick is essentially there to comment on them in the narration. Also in Chapter 7, the argument with Tom and Gatsby really didn't need Nick and Jordan around and they attempt to leave, but both Tom and Gatsby insist on them staying in the room, which Nick does for the purpose of seeing the whole argument through even though that's his only part to play in the whole thing.
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The Great Gatsby / int_3e58c24d	type	Trade Your Passion for Glory
The Great Gatsby / int_3e58c24d	comment	Trade Your Passion for Glory: Since his childhood, Gatsy had a lot of dreams and wanted to do a lot of great things, but his infatuation with Stepford Smiler Daisy lead him to become a millionaire by being a smuggler:
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The Great Gatsby / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Great Gatsby / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Nick. He eventually learns to be more cynical by the end of the novel.
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The Great Gatsby / int_4056daeb	type	Rash Equilibrium
The Great Gatsby / int_4056daeb	comment	Rash Equilibrium: Happens quite a bit. The rich are constantly scheming, backstabbing each other, and planning around other bits of backstabbing. When Gatsby dies taking the rap for Daisy, Nick declares it the final straw and leaves the city.
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The Great Gatsby / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
The Great Gatsby / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: The biggest example being Daisy's name.
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The Great Gatsby / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
The Great Gatsby / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Three people come to Gatsby's. Nick, Owl-Eyes, and Gatsby's father, who is pathetically trying to justify to himself the fact that Gatsby ran away and never came back.
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The Great Gatsby / int_42148628	type	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
The Great Gatsby / int_42148628	comment	The ashfields represent the gaps between humanity and the evil of consumerism! And hell!
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The Great Gatsby / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Great Gatsby / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Gatsby at first. He tells outrageous whoppers about being a Gentleman Adventurer, which Nick can see is obviously fake. But the truth coming out would ruin Gatsby, so it's better than the alternative.
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The Great Gatsby / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Great Gatsby / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Gatsby has his heart set on Daisy, who's married to Tom, who's conducting an open affair with Myrtle, who herself is married to George, who later on believes that Gatsby is responsible for killing Myrtle...
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The Great Gatsby / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
The Great Gatsby / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: After his confrontation with Gatsby, Tom Buchanan claims to truly be in love with his wife, Daisy. However, Tom only really cares about himself, and it is implied that he loved Daisy as an object of affection rather than as a person. Tom also cheats on Daisy several times, even directly after their honeymoon, and it's made explicit in the book that he has hurt her enough to leave bruises.
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The Great Gatsby / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Great Gatsby / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Like the rest of his possessions, Gatsby's mansion is built for display and spectacle. It's seen mostly in the context of Gatsby's enormous parties.
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The Great Gatsby / int_48c8fcbc	type	Kosher Nostra
The Great Gatsby / int_48c8fcbc	comment	Kosher Nostra: Meyer Wolfsheim, a Jewish gangster based on Arnold Rothstein.
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The Great Gatsby / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Great Gatsby / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Gatsby is framed by Tom for Myrtle's death and is in turn killed by her vengeful husband. Daisy decides to stay with Tom, and Tom gets away with being indirectly responsible for Gatsby's death, while they are both doomed to be stuck in a loveless marriage. Nick becomes so disgusted with the whole affair that he essentially cuts ties with Tom and Daisy and leaves New York.
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The Great Gatsby / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Great Gatsby / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Tom and possibly Myrtle Wilson.
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The Great Gatsby / int_506fd96c	type	Tears of Awe
The Great Gatsby / int_506fd96c	comment	Tears of Awe: When Gatsby invites Daisy and Nick to his mansion, the latter two get dumbfounded by the luxury, but what really made Daisy burst to tears was when she sees Gatsby's silk shirts and planting her face over such beautiful shirts. Whether the added layer of Daisy masking her feelings of regret of marrying Tom over Gatsby or being a shallow, materialistic woman that she loves the shirts over Gatsby is up to the reader's interpretation.
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The Great Gatsby / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Great Gatsby / int_516f986d	comment	Daisy herself becomes a much colder, far more bitter person after five years of being married to Tom. Gatsby can't see it.
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The Great Gatsby / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
The Great Gatsby / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby's "gonnegtion" in the bootlegging business, sometimes speaks in this.
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The Great Gatsby / int_53034c21	type	Great White Hunter
The Great Gatsby / int_53034c21	comment	Great White Hunter: One of Gatsby's Multiple Choice Pasts paints him as one of these. Nick initially scoffs at it, as Gatsby's backstory sounds like something he'd read in a magazine about the Gentleman Adventurer stories that were popular at the time. However, a photo suggests that at least some of it is true.
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The Great Gatsby / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Great Gatsby / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Meyer Wolfsheim is quite friendly for a gangster who wears human teeth as cufflinks.
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The Great Gatsby / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
The Great Gatsby / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Nick and Jordan. Their romance isn't exactly happy-go-lucky, but in comparison to the epic Love Dodecahedron they're playing off, they're positively ecstatic.
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The Great Gatsby / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Great Gatsby / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Despite being a close friend of Gatsby's, Meyer Wolfsheim chooses not to turn up to Gatsby's funeral out of concern that he might be linked to his murder.
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The Great Gatsby / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
The Great Gatsby / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Though only symbolically to represent the characters' guilt.
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The Great Gatsby / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Great Gatsby / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: When Gatsby dies in his swimming pool, "a thin red circle in the water" fans out.
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The Great Gatsby / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
The Great Gatsby / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: Gatsby, in regards to Daisy.
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The Great Gatsby / int_626f55cc	type	Said Bookism
The Great Gatsby / int_626f55cc	comment	Said Bookism: The book's not only full of these, it's full of redundant ones, like "snorted contemptuously."
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The Great Gatsby / int_67e84a8e	type	Wild Mass Guessing
The Great Gatsby / int_67e84a8e	comment	The valley of ashes itself has a foreshadowing meaning if you're going to take Wild Mass Guessing to that level.
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The Great Gatsby / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Great Gatsby / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Daisy Fay. "Fay" has rather unpleasant connotations. (This can be taken still farther with her first name as a Bilingual Bonus: the French for "daisy" is "marguerite", and Marguerite is the heroine-victim in Gounod's Faust. Looked at in a certain light, this is a version of the Faust story.) Also, her daughter's name, Pamela, not only refers to a very sentimental and idealistic novel by Samuel Richardson, but refers to Daisy herself—it means literally "all honey." And then there's Gatsby himself; "Gat" is a slang term for a gun... Lost to time now, but "Jordan" and "Baker" are both the names of car companies, alluding to mobility and liberation.
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The Great Gatsby / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Great Gatsby / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: Ewing Klipspringer. He eventually does when Gatsby dies. Foreshadowed by "Blocks" Biloxi, who fainted at Daisy's wedding. They carried him into Jordan's house, and he stayed three weeks, until Jordan's dad told him he had to get out. Next day, Mr. Baker died. "There wasn't any connection."
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The Great Gatsby / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
The Great Gatsby / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Nick and Jordan. He Will Not Tell a Lie; she's a Consummate Liar.
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The Great Gatsby / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Great Gatsby / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Nick muses on this at the very end of the book, after Gatsby is dead and his house has been left to rot. While waiting for a boat back to New York, Nick comes to terms with Gatsy's passing and admits that he can see what Gatsby was trying to do, but also says that it was never going to work.
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The Great Gatsby / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Great Gatsby / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: One of the early signs of Tom being a scumbag is his racism. He goes on about his "Nordic" heritage and rants about how white people are in danger of being "utterly submerged" by the "lesser races". He also shills a fictional book called The Rise of the Colored Empires, a reference to the works of Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, who were popular eugenicists in Fitzgerald's day.
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The Great Gatsby / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
The Great Gatsby / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles:
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The Great Gatsby / int_76c30df4	type	Will Not Tell a Lie
The Great Gatsby / int_76c30df4	comment	Will Not Tell a Lie: Nick describes himself this way.
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The Great Gatsby / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Great Gatsby / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: One of the major themes of the story is Old Money vs Nouveau Riche — this trope, just with rich people on both sides. The Buchanans represent Old Money, those born into wealth and raised with the long-established rules of high society. They don't show off their wealth excessively, but a person can tell they're wealthy just by how they act and they way they carry themselves. Gatsby represents Nouveau Riche (New Money), the worst depiction of the Self-Made Man — those who try to flaunt their wealth as much as they can, whether by the garish, over-the-top parties like those that Gatsby throws, or through excessive spending at every available opportunity, as affirmation, both to others and to themselves, of their new status in society. The latter are the slobs, intruding on a formerly isolated class of society whose rules they care little to nothing about. The former are the snobs, people who hold themselves to an incredibly high standard despite many of them having never worked a hard day in their life.
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The Great Gatsby / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
The Great Gatsby / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Gatsby wears a pink suit a couple times in the novel. Dismissed by Tom, of course.
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The Great Gatsby / int_7a54c458	type	Mock Millionaire
The Great Gatsby / int_7a54c458	comment	Mock Millionaire: Played with— Gatsby truly is a millionaire because of his criminal activities, but he lacks the education of the rich culture (he thinks San Francisco is a Midwestern city and that Venice is one of the "capitals of Europe", and he really doesnâ€™t get the subtle clues that show that he is not invited to a party). He displays Conspicuous Consumption with his Cool Car and Unlimited Wardrobe ("such beautiful shirts"), drops casual references to Exotic Places (Montenegro and Oxford) in his Multiple-Choice Past and holds parties with The Beautiful Elite in his Big Fancy House. The sheer excess of it convinces everyone that he must be a Mock Millionaire.
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The Great Gatsby / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Great Gatsby / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Nick suspects Gatsby of this. He has a Multiple-Choice Past, and one that has every cliche of the Great White Hunter thrown in, at that. However, some evidence Nick finds later suggests that perhaps Gatsby isn't making it all up. It's ultimately not clear how much Gatsby is lying, but he's certainly not being completely honest about everything. It has been pointed out that Gatsby claims to have been in charge of his regiment's Lewis guns in combat when the US Army never used them in France although this may have been an error on Fitzgerald's part as he joined up in the First World War but never made it to Europe.
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The Great Gatsby / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Great Gatsby / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Dan Cody, Gatsby's mentor as a young man, is described as a "pioneer debauchee" and reposes trust in Gatsby because "Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about."
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The Great Gatsby / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Great Gatsby / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Only three people who weren't employed by Gatsby bother to show up at his funeral: Nick (the narrator), Gatsby's father, and one party guest (out of literally hundreds). In addition, Gatsby is secluded from social life, only bothering to converse with someone who is either Daisy or close to her at one of his parties. Tom rightly suspects nobody really likes him and only has his Glory Days as a Jerk Jock. Daisy is a Stepford Smiler. Both she and Tom are trapped in a loveless marriage.
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The Great Gatsby / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Great Gatsby / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Gatsby's Fatal Flaw, or harmartia, is his refusal to accept reality and to let go of his idealized vision of Daisy and his dream of recreating the past with her as if the last five years hadn't happened, leading to his undoing when Daisy rejects him. His perepeteia occurs during his confrontation with Tom during which Daisy is frightened into backtracking, and his anagnorisis is the realization that she will never leave Tom to be with him. Gatsby's amazing ability to dream big and work toward his dreams is ultimately wasted on something that can never be realized.
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The Great Gatsby / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Great Gatsby / int_83a903f6	comment	Daisy is a Stepford Smiler. Both she and Tom are trapped in a loveless marriage.
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The Great Gatsby / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
The Great Gatsby / int_83ab1b39	comment	The Tragic Rose: Discussed; late in the book Nick muses that Gatsby must have realized "what a grotesque thing a rose is". He compares Gatsby's doomed liaison with Daisy and high-flying dreams with a rose: Gatsby had idealized her and associated her with love and beauty, but didn't think he'd be wounded by the whole experience, and now his whole perspective on the world is warped.
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The Great Gatsby / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
The Great Gatsby / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: The "epigraph" is from an "author" named Thomas Parke D'Invilliers. Thomas Parke D'Invilliers wasn't a real author, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the piece himself. Interestingly, though, this isn't the only time in Fitzgerald's works that the name is mentioned.
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The Great Gatsby / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Great Gatsby / int_859ec5d8	comment	Daisy Fay. "Fay" has rather unpleasant connotations. (This can be taken still farther with her first name as a Bilingual Bonus: the French for "daisy" is "marguerite", and Marguerite is the heroine-victim in Gounod's Faust. Looked at in a certain light, this is a version of the Faust story.) Also, her daughter's name, Pamela, not only refers to a very sentimental and idealistic novel by Samuel Richardson, but refers to Daisy herself—it means literally "all honey." And then there's Gatsby himself; "Gat" is a slang term for a gun...
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The Great Gatsby / int_85f102ac	type	Symbolic Distance
The Great Gatsby / int_85f102ac	comment	Symbolic Distance: Arguably one of the most famous symbols in literature, the green light represents the literal and emotional separation between Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby will walk to the edge of his dock, and will literally 'reach out' his hand towards the pulsing light in the distance. The symbol of distance occurs when, after years apart, Gatsby and Daisy are reunited at Nick's house. Only, Gatsby cannot bring himself to be near her. They stand far away from each other at opposite ends of the extravagant room Gatsby set up, and they appear unable to get closer until Nick leaves the room, practically having to force them into their so-desired reunion.
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The Great Gatsby / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Great Gatsby / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Early in the book, Tom buys Myrtle a puppy on a whim. Although a leash Myrtle buys the puppy eventually plays a minor role in the plot, the actual animal is never seen again after its first appearance.
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The Great Gatsby / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
The Great Gatsby / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Tom is a former athlete and a total jerk. He was a former football player at Yale, and Nick describes him as a man looking for another football game to win. Nick postulates that this is because Tom knows, deep down, that his football days were the highlight of his life.
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The Great Gatsby / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Great Gatsby / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The Old Money East Egg community is based on Sands Point on Long Island, while the Nouveau Riche West Egg is Kings Point.
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The Great Gatsby / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
The Great Gatsby / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: George Wilson shoots himself over the death of his wife Myrtle, taking Gatsby with him because he thinks Gatsby was the one to kill her.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Great Gatsby / int_8a295a46	comment	Lost to time now, but "Jordan" and "Baker" are both the names of car companies, alluding to mobility and liberation.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8a409f7c	type	The Flapper
The Great Gatsby / int_8a409f7c	comment	The Flapper: The majority of the women in the novel. Jordan especially, who is the modern woman of the 1920's by working (she is a pro-golf player), whose name is taken from brands of cars, and who fits the ideal appearance of a flapper by being small-chested and slim.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Great Gatsby / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the American Dream lifestyle, of the Idle Rich, and of the idea of everlasting love.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Great Gatsby / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Jay Gatsby is quite devoted to winning his love, Daisy Buchanan, over. He moved across the bay her house was located on, threw lavish parties at his mansion to draw her in and when she did came to one, he expected her to run away with him due to what she did to get close to her and was unrelenting even when it was made clear that Daisy didn't want him.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
The Great Gatsby / int_8c49c29e	comment	Zig-zagged. When his mistress is killed, Tom directs her suicidally mournful husband to Gatsby. Meanwhile, Tom and Daisy drift off back to Chicago, leaving the entire unholy mess behind. This is one of the themes of the novel: That the rich make a huge mess and leave others to clean it up. However, it is implied that their already rocky relationship has been further ruined by the whole experience.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Great Gatsby / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Nick, albeit a short one, and under extreme provocation. Daisy herself becomes a much colder, far more bitter person after five years of being married to Tom. Gatsby can't see it.
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The Great Gatsby / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Great Gatsby / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Daisy gives off this vibe towards Nick early in the novel. It's worth noting that this is a case not based from attraction or sexual desire. People like Nick —in his late twenties without a wife or girlfriend to speak of— were often Mistaken for Gay in those days. On the absence of a significant other, he kissed Daisy in order to duck any gossip that might be spread about him (considering they are at a party). None of the partygoers would be savvy about Nick's relation to Daisy. Also, they're second cousins once removed—not a super close relation.
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The Great Gatsby / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Great Gatsby / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Jay's only moment where he seems to realize just how far Daisy is from his ideal is when he sees Pamela (her daughter) for the first time and can't quite make himself believe she's real.
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The Great Gatsby / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Great Gatsby / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Most famously —and unsubtly— "the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg" on an abandoned billboard along the highway the characters all travel. The eyes of God! The green light is the American Dream. The ashfields represent the gaps between humanity and the evil of consumerism! And hell! Nick's list of Gatsby's (parasitic and moneyed) guests is from July 5th, symbolically after the hope-filled founding of America. Owl-Eyes, one of the few not to overlook Gatsby's funeral, just happens to wear a set of rimmed glasses that Dr. Eckleburg might wear.
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The Great Gatsby / int_93139cf0	type	Bookshelf of Authority
The Great Gatsby / int_93139cf0	comment	Bookshelf of Authority: Jay Gatsby fills his library with books he doesn't read, both to appear cultured and to show he can afford them. The Owl-Eyed Man says that lots of rich people do this, and Gatsby is a cut above the rest because he uses real books rather than fakes with blank pages. There's proof that he doesn't read: the pages aren't cut note Books are printed on large sheets of paper, which are then folded into individual pages, cut, and bound to the spine. In the era of Gatsby, brand new books would have pages still stuck together at the edges and required the reader to cut them apart.
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The Great Gatsby / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
The Great Gatsby / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Nick keeps up a running commentary throughout the narrative about how this experience is changing his attitudes, and not for the better. It comes to a head in his conclusion, which is more or less: real life sucks, but at least some people are more honest about it than others.
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The Great Gatsby / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Great Gatsby / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When a man Nick dubs "Owl-Eyes" wrecks his car. Guess what happens to another character later on, involving a car? The other (minor) car crash mentioned— Tom Buchanan was involved in a car accident... with a chambermaid in the passenger seat. These incidents tend to reveal adultery, don't they? The valley of ashes itself has a foreshadowing meaning if you're going to take Wild Mass Guessing to that level.
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The Great Gatsby / int_9e727954	type	Indulgent Fantasy Segue
The Great Gatsby / int_9e727954	comment	Indulgent Fantasy Segue:
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The Great Gatsby / int_a1ca3743	type	Believing Their Own Lies
The Great Gatsby / int_a1ca3743	comment	Believing Their Own Lies: In their final meeting, Nick realizes that Tom has convinced himself that Gatsby was the one driving.
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The Great Gatsby / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
The Great Gatsby / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Gatsby is presented as such, completely affable to everyone he meets and steadfast in his pursuit of Daisy since they first dated. The novel deconstructs this as time goes on, largely in exploring how his devotion leads him to let Daisy get away with murder and lose his spirit when she chooses Tom over him, and shatters everything he'd been working for his whole life. It's also implied his goals led him to take certain shady shortcuts to get the wealth he needed to impress her quickly, and he's not quite as noble as he'd like to let on.
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The Great Gatsby / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
The Great Gatsby / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Subverted, and the subversion discussed. After Nick agrees to help Gatsby reunite with Daisy, Gatsby offers him some form of employment in his shady enterprises. Nick, in the narration, admits that this would have been a very serious What You Are in the Dark moment... if he wasn't already planning on taking the "Think Nothing of It" route.
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The Great Gatsby / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
The Great Gatsby / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Gatsby loves to do this whenever anybody asks him how he became so rich, coming up with new stories all the time.
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The Great Gatsby / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Daisy and Tom barely seem aware that they have a kid.
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The Great Gatsby / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Great Gatsby / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Zig-zagged. When his mistress is killed, Tom directs her suicidally mournful husband to Gatsby. Meanwhile, Tom and Daisy drift off back to Chicago, leaving the entire unholy mess behind. This is one of the themes of the novel: That the rich make a huge mess and leave others to clean it up. However, it is implied that their already rocky relationship has been further ruined by the whole experience. Daisy as well: She's driving the car when it kills Myrtle. Gatsby offers to lie that he was at the wheel instead, which she lets him do.
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The Great Gatsby / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Great Gatsby / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Nick, in proportion as his cynicism grows. He keeps it largely to himself, though, save a few moments in the opening scenes:
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The Great Gatsby / int_af157b58	comment	Nick, in proportion as his cynicism grows. He keeps it largely to himself, though, save a few moments in the opening scenes:
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The Great Gatsby / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Great Gatsby / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Cena Trimalchionis recycled IN ROARING-TWENTIES NEW YORK! F. Scott Fitzgerald even intended to call the book Trimalchio in West Egg until he was persuaded that his readers wouldn't get it.
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The Great Gatsby / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Great Gatsby / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Tom talking about being a superior "Nordic" despite his last name being "Buchanan", a Scottish surname. Tom again, who has been cheating on Daisy for a while, flips out when he discovers she could cheat on him with Gatsby: And yet again, when he condemns Gatsby as a bootlegger despite drinking whiskey several times throughout the story — which takes place in 1922, during Prohibition.
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The Great Gatsby / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
The Great Gatsby / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: One interpretation of the novel's entire theme. Jay Gatsby idealizes Daisy to a ridiculous extent but this is far from the limit of his problems. He, for example, does not think about directly making his position to Daisy clear. It requires Nick to even set up a meeting with them. He refuses to think Daisy might have changed (let alone was never the person he imagined). He won't acknowledge that divorce is almost impossible in their social circles, even if she was so inclined, or how he might destroy his life (and does) by taking a manslaughter charge for her. The closest Jay comes to being forced to confront the reality of his situation is when he meets Pamela, and it momentarily makes him realize his romance is dead on arrival. His response? Try to get Daisy to abandon her.
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The Great Gatsby / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
The Great Gatsby / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: There's color symbolism throughout the book, associating white with purity and yellow with corruption. The girls wore yellow dresses at Gatsby's party. Early in the book, Gatsby can be seen looking out across a large body of water towards a blinking light located on the end of the dock where Tom and Daisy live. Interestingly enough, the light is green. Nick Carraway tends to wear blue. He's probably the character with the most integrity of them all. Gatsby himself wears yellow and has a gold car, which can either represent corruption, as stated above, or things like luxury and grandeur. The three most prominent colors in the book are green, white, and yellow—the colors of a daisy.
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The Great Gatsby / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Great Gatsby / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Several, although none have been hailed as masterpieces. The 1974 version with Robert Redford is the best-regarded, though many criticize it as too literal an adaptation. Few have seen the 1949 version (because it's unavailable), which conversely is a loose adaptation. Baz Luhrmann's faithful but heavily stylized 2013 take has proven extremely polarizing. The introspective nature of the book is hard to translate onto film, and some of Gatsby's grand romantic gestures tend to come off as incredibly affected. His habit of calling his friends 'old sport' is affected, especially notable when he's nervous or feeling downtrodden (especially in the scene where he's reunited with Daisy by Nick). Additionally, the films struggle depicting Fitzgerald's symbolism like T.J. Eckelberg's billboard and the flashing green light without seeming forced. Much earlier than those is the 1926 adaptation. This one is now considered lost, but this one-minute trailer survives.
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The Great Gatsby / int_b9fa17b7	type	Pretender Diss
The Great Gatsby / int_b9fa17b7	comment	Pretender Diss: One of the themes of the novel is that Old Money East Egg would not accept Nouveau Riche Gatsby, from West Egg. (This parallels The Hamptons on Long Island.)
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The Great Gatsby / int_ba0114dc	type	Penny Among Diamonds
The Great Gatsby / int_ba0114dc	comment	Penny Among Diamonds: Gatsby, from Oxford on.
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The Great Gatsby / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Great Gatsby / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The main theme of the book is that chasing the past is a fruitless endeavor, because the past is the past and you can't get it back. Trying to do so anyway is only going to make you miserable. Gatsby ends up dying for his own dream when he just can't accept that Daisy's moved on from him. The lives of the Idle Rich really aren't as glamorous as they're made out to be. At best, keeping up appearances means they'll never discuss the gory details of their own lives. But more than likely, each of them is an Upper-Class Twit trying to pretend that they don't have any troubles, and quite often operate on a completely alien moral spectrum compared to everyone else. As such, the aesop is that being "in" with the rich crowd is not something anybody should ever want. Tom and Daisy exemplify this — Tom yearns for his Glory Days as a football player at Yale, Daisy fakes being a Brainless Beauty because that's the only way she maintains her status, and both of them are having affairs in a loveless marriage.
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The Great Gatsby / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Great Gatsby / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The owl-eyed man's funeral oration briefly conveys Gatsby's life and death.
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The Great Gatsby / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
The Great Gatsby / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Gatsby pays no attention to the real Daisy, because he is Loving a Shadow. His dream is to Set Right What Once Went Wrong without using Time Travel and get the Daisy that left him years ago:
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The Great Gatsby / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Great Gatsby / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Gatsby is a crook, but he's more compassionate than most of the "law-abiding" characters.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
The Great Gatsby / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Most of the characters have them in one way or another, excepting Gatsby (and that's arguably his Fatal Flaw). Nick's Character Development over the course of the story is about learning to wear them.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Great Gatsby / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Gatsby and Daisy. He became an Idle Rich man in an attempt to impress her, since he was born into poverty. It doesn't work out the way he hoped it would. Tom and Myrtle. They're much like Gatsby and Daisy, but not married, and it's obvious that their marriages are loveless and bothersome, hence why they're cheating on their spouses. Nick and Jordan downplay this. It's safe to assume she is from a higher economic bracket—she's a professional golfer, grew up friends with Daisy and is able to share in the Buchanans' rich carelessness, whilst he is from the Midwest, works in finance and lives in a bungalow in "the comforting proximity of millionaires"— but there's no canon discussion of their monetary status.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Great Gatsby / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The entirety of the reunion between Gatsby and Daisy, at least until five years of lingering awkwardness are done away with.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Great Gatsby / int_c75df49a	comment	Tom mentions a white supremacist author named Goddard and his book The Rise of the Colored Empires, a Shout-Out/Take That! to eugenicists Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard (who was a protegÃ© of the former). (The former's Passing of the Great Race and the latter's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, with introduction written by the former, were highly popular books in 1920s high society, although mostly forgotten today due to their direct influence on Hitler himself.)
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The Great Gatsby / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Great Gatsby / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Deconstructed. The truth about Gatsby's income turns out to be a whole lot less exciting than the party guests' speculations, not to mention the high-flying stories he tells Nick.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
The Great Gatsby / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: Has endured in the popular imagination as the iconic representation of this era. That it's also a savage satire and ultimately a hate speech on the same attitudes doesn't seem to register as clearly. Quite ironically, The Great Gatsby flopped when it first came out for this very reason.
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The Great Gatsby / int_c9da2b5	type	Cast Full of Rich People
The Great Gatsby / int_c9da2b5	comment	Cast Full of Rich People: The book and its film adaptations are about the lives of a cast of wealthy New Yorkers who live extravagantly in The Roaring '20s. The book in particular explores the idea of the American Dream and the conflict between the "Old Money" and "New Money" subclasses of rich people. The only significant characters who appear to be genuinely lower-income are George and Myrtle Wilson.
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The Great Gatsby / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
The Great Gatsby / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Tom rightly suspects nobody really likes him and only has his Glory Days as a Jerk Jock.
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The Great Gatsby / int_d28d210a	type	Daydream Believer
The Great Gatsby / int_d28d210a	comment	Daydream Believer: Gatsby really believes that millionaires are Gentleman Adventurers and his Multiple-Choice Past are stories everyone thinks are ridiculous... at first. But given Gatsby is The Charmer, he manages to make others believe, even for a little while, in his story. In chapter 4, he is confessing his past to the skeptical Nick: And after Gatsby produces a medal from Montenegro Republic and a photo of him with the actual Earl of Doncaster, when they were at Oxford, Nick was forced to believe:
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The Great Gatsby / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The Great Gatsby / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Gatsby calls everyone "old sport." Lampshaded by Tom:
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The Great Gatsby / int_d358ed20	type	Unbalanced By Rival's Kid
The Great Gatsby / int_d358ed20	comment	Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Briefly where Daisy's child serves as a symbol to Gatsby of the reality of her marriage to Tom.
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The Great Gatsby / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Great Gatsby / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: With Double Standard mixed in. Tom proudly shows off his mistress to Nick, then gets incredibly pissed off when he realizes that Gatsby and Daisy are ready to have an affair.
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The Great Gatsby / int_db68ca14	type	Died in Ignorance
The Great Gatsby / int_db68ca14	comment	Died in Ignorance: Towards the end of the novel, it is left ambiguous whether Gatsby really believed that Daisy would call him, but he has some hope as he told the butler to let him know if anyone did. Nick believed he didn't, but he has proved himself to be an Unreliable Narrator throughout the novel, and therefore it is left up in the air.
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The Great Gatsby / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Great Gatsby / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Wilson and Myrtle. They've been put into the story as a means of killing off Gatsby; Myrtle gets hit by Daisy when she is driving Gatsby's car. Wilson thinks Gatsby killed his wife, so he goes off to get his revenge.
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The Great Gatsby / int_dce53dc6	type	White Is Pure
The Great Gatsby / int_dce53dc6	comment	White Is Pure: Subverted. Daisy Buchanan is frequently associated with the color white (such as wearing white dresses, owns a white car, and is linked with white flowers). This adds to her supposed image as a pure, innocent figure which Jay Gatsby idolizes. However, it is eventually revealed that Daisy is a selfish, careless woman whose flaws are unnoticed by Gatsby.
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The Great Gatsby / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
The Great Gatsby / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: A few of the names from Nick's list of Gatsby's guests on a July 5th time-table: The Leeches, the Fishguards, the Ripley Snells, Mrs. Ulysses Swett, S.B. Whitebait, Maurice A. Flink, a state senator named Gulick, James B. "Rot-gut" Ferret, a Dr. Civet, the Scullys, S.W. Belcher, and the Smirkes.
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The Great Gatsby / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Great Gatsby / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Gatsby crosses this line when Daisy outright rejects him and proves that all of his work towards winning her heart had been for nothing. George Wilson also crosses this line after Myrtle dies, and this ultimately culminates in the deaths of the two men at the hand of Wilson. Daisy has crossed this before the events of the book and spends her time either trying to climb out of it or deny it entirely.
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The Great Gatsby / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
The Great Gatsby / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Daisy pairs up Nick and Jordan as a couple right after they interact a bit in the first chapter.
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The Great Gatsby / int_de80e030	type	Social Climber
The Great Gatsby / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber: Gatsby is an Idealist version, despite several rumors to the contrary. He was born to dirt-poor farmers in the Midwest, left to seek his fortune, and used the money he inherited from an old man who grew to love him like a son to start living the high life. In keeping with the Idealist version, he genuinely seems to believe that millionaires are Gentleman Adventurers and the like, and thinks that flaunting his wealth will win him Daisy's heart. He also falls under the Idealist category because he's already gotten his hands dirty, and actually gains much of his fortune selling illegal booze.
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The Great Gatsby / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Great Gatsby / int_deea2fb5	comment	Gatsby and Daisy. He became an Idle Rich man in an attempt to impress her, since he was born into poverty. It doesn't work out the way he hoped it would.
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The Great Gatsby / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The Great Gatsby / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: All over the book. The brutally hot weather on the day that the love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom climaxes, along with George Wilson discovering his wife Myrtle's infidelity and subsequent death. Followed by the cool weather the day afterwards, representing the end of Gatsby and Daisy's affair. What's more Gatsby remains in complete denial of both—he insists on swimming in his pool despite the cool weather, just as he insists that Daisy will come to him even though it's painfully obvious to Nick (and the reader) that she will not.
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The Great Gatsby / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Great Gatsby / int_e5421161	comment	Meyer Wolfsheim is a thinly-veiled Expy of gambler and mob boss Arnold Rothstein, who, like Wolfsheim, is infamous for fixing the 1919 World Series.
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The Great Gatsby / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Great Gatsby / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Say what you will about the lengths he went to to pursue it, Gatsby never gives up on his dream of winning Daisy's heart. The trouble is, it's a Tragic Dream. Gatsby is certain that he can win Daisy's heart and recreate the past, when it's perfectly clear that Gatsby can do no such thing. The entire plot is about how all of Gatsby's attempts at Daisy, while determined, are futile.
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The Great Gatsby / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
The Great Gatsby / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Nick is mainly an observer and doesn't do much of anything to move the plot forward. About all he does is set up the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy after their years of separation, acting mostly as an outside observer for how the Idle Rich act.
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The Great Gatsby / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
The Great Gatsby / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Everything Gatsby did to raise and spend his ill-gotten money was to capture Daisy's heart. He idealizes her to the extent that he's willing to take a manslaughter rap for her. However, this doesn't excuse that Gatsby never would have been happy, for he expected too much from Daisy, wanting (and in the infamous confrontation scene, forcing) her to be the perfect memory he obsessed over.
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The Great Gatsby / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
The Great Gatsby / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Nick, literally at the beginning of the novel. The entire story thereafter is dedicated to shattering his illusions.
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The Great Gatsby / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Great Gatsby / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, albeit with minor characters. Mrs. McKee and one of the girls in yellow at Gatsby's party in chapter 3 are both named Lucille.
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The Great Gatsby / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Great Gatsby / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Subverted. Daisy is no fool and really knows how miserable her life is, it's only that she invokes this trope as a Stepford Smiler:
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The Great Gatsby / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Great Gatsby / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Tom breaks Myrtle's nose during a spat in the middle of a party. It's implied that he's hit Daisy as well in a scene where she blames him for the bruise on her finger.
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The Great Gatsby / int_f5afa308	type	Hard-Drinking Party Girl
The Great Gatsby / int_f5afa308	comment	Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Myrtle drinks herself into a stupor more than once, which is implied to be done as a way to distract herself from how boring her Idle Rich life is. A woman attending the party at Gatsby's house that Tom and Daisy come to talks about how she frequently gets so drunk her friends have to dunk her head in the pool to sober her up.
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The Great Gatsby / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Great Gatsby / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Daisy. She married Tom for his money and status, which makes him an equivalent of aristocracy. Myrtle abuses her love affair with Tom, quickly buying perfume and a dog with his money although she also genuinely seems to like Tom. She is from a working-class background and was never wealthy in the first place, unlike Daisy, and would never otherwise be able to afford luxuries. Gatsby's mentor Dan Cody is said to have attracted many of these. The most persistent, a "newspaper woman" named Ella Kay, found him again after he took a young Gatsby under his wing, then wheedled her way into his will a week before his death.
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The Great Gatsby / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Jordan, who insists she won't have a problem until she meets another bad driver. Daisy turns out to be a bad driver too, driving over Myrtle—although Myrtle did run right out in front of the car. Tom and his first affair partner were discovered when they got into a car accident during his and Daisy's honeymoon. The theme of bad driving recurs, and it is laden with symbolism.
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The Great Gatsby / int_fa4bf618	comment	Blank Book: Owl-eyes suspects that Gatsby's impressive library is full of fake wood facades of book spines, to give the appearance of shelves stacked full of books. He discovers to his surprise that the library is actually filled with real books. However, the pages of the books are still bound together and uncut, meaning Gatsby has never actually read any of them. They're still for show, but it's a much more expensive show.
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The Great Gatsby / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: It was published in 1925, after all. But it doesn't help that there's also a healthy dose of Ho Yay. "a promise that she had done gay exciting things just a while since and that there were gay exciting things hovering in the next hour." Jordan tells the story of how the young Daisy had her little love affair with Gatsby and then missed her chance to say goodbye to him when he was shipped out. After that, she apparently gave up going out with soldiers, and "[b]y the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever."
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