The Great Gatsby

Characters

• Jay Gatsby
• Nick Carraway
• Daisy and Tom Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Myrtle and George Wilson
• Meyer Wolfsheim

Chapter 3

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Chapter 7

He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick. I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before—and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Chapter 9

That' my Middle West—not the weat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.