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Character Analysis and Motifs in The Great Gatsby

Dive into the characters of Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Jordan Baker while exploring recurring motifs such as marine imagery, dust, bright colors, and more in the classic novel.

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Character Analysis and Motifs in The Great Gatsby

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  1. The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Character Analysis, Themes, and Motifs

  2. Motifs (reoccurring imagery and patterns) in The Great Gatsby • Marine (pertaining to water, oceans, boating, etc.) • Dust • Ashes • Bright colors: yellow, green, blue, purple, etc. • Ghosts • Eyes • Noses • Alcohol • Masculine women • Feminine men • Cars • GARDENS (fruit, greenery, shrubs, plants, etc.)

  3. Subjects in The Great Gatsby(what we learn about them will become the THEMES of the novel) • Love • Money • Hypocrisy • Time • Friendship • Carelessness • Dishonesty • The American Dream

  4. Nick Carraway • First-person narrator of The Great Gatsby. • 29 years old • From the Midwest • Raised in a privileged family • Taught to reserve judgments of people • Sarcastic and witty • Rents a house on West Egg for the summer • Second cousin, once removed to Daisy Buchanan • “I’m inclined to reserve all judgements…” (5). • “I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away” (25).

  5. Tom Buchanan • “A sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a hard mouth and a supercilious manner” (11). • Muscular, “cruel” body • “Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward” (11). • “Enormously wealthy” (10). • Old money, blue-blood • Married to Daisy • trying to recapture his football glory days • Arrogant, sexist, racist • Has a mistress • “As for Tom the fact that he ‘had some woman in New York’ was really less surprising than that he had been depressedby a book” (25).

  6. Daisy Buchanan • About 23 years old • Very lovely, very charming • She has “an absurd, charming little laugh” and a “low, thrilling voice.” • She speaks in exaggerate phrases and talks low so that people must be close to her in order to hear her. • She knows but ignores the fact that Tom has a mistress. • “… ‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’” (21).

  7. Jordan Baker • About 21 years old • Slender, small-breasted • Erect carriage…holds shoulders back like a soldier • Grey sun-strained eyes • Arrogant and contemptuous, but Nick finds her attractive • Professional golfer

  8. Jay Gatsby • Nick’s neighbor • Daisy might know him • Millionaire • He has an “extraordinary gift for hope” and a “romantic readiness” that Nick admires (6). • Was reaching for “a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (26).

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