Gatsby characters

Who they are, in a few lines. Tap one for their quotes.

Nick Carraway →

The narrator. From the Midwest. He watches. He says he reserves judgement. He does not, not really.

James Gatz from North Dakota. He invented a man named Gatsby and spent years becoming him, for Daisy.

Nick's cousin. Tom's wife. The green light. She wants to be loved and she wants to be safe. She picks safe.

Old money. A bully with a string of polo ponies and a mistress in the valley of ashes.

A golfer. Nick's almost-girlfriend. She lies, and she drives badly, and she hates careless people.

Tom's mistress. She wants out of the garage. She dies in the road, under Daisy's wheel.

Myrtle's husband. He runs the garage in the ashes. He talks to the billboard. He kills Gatsby.

Gatsby's friend in the city. He will not come to the funeral.