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Wednesday 19 January 2011

Brief Character Bios

Character Bios for The Great Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan (née Fay).
Married to Tom Buchanan, Nick’s second cousin once removed.
‘Effervescent (excitable), attractive, shallow.’
A ‘voice full of money’.
The "girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs".
Nick Carraway
Narrator of The Great Gatsby.
Bond salesman, from Chicago. Graduated from Yale, WWI veteran.
Gatsby’s next-door neighbour.

Jay Gatsby (James Gatz)
‘Young, mysterious millionaire.’
A bootlegger from North Dakota, obsessively in love with Daisy.
WWI veteran.

Tom Buchanan
Arrogant. An ‘old money’ millionaire.
An interest in polo.
Yale graduate and a white supremacist.


Jordan Baker 
Daisy Buchanan’s long time friend.

A professional golfer, with a slightly shady reputation.




Myrtle Wilson – Tom’s mistress.







George Wilson
Myrtle's husband.  Owns a garage in the Valley Of Ashes. Murders Gatsby, then shoots himself.
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