Directions: Effective writing is a vital component of students’ literacy achievement.

Below, it is a
graphic organizer about the characters and the background. Using the information that has been provided
by me, use the book “The Great Gatsby” to analyze the characters in more details. By using both these, it
will help you on your characters’ analysis paper.

The American Dream

Jay Gatsby Nick Caraway Tom Buchanan Daisy Buchanan

The son of a poor He grew up in He is born into She was born from a
farmers. the Midwest, in money, so along wealthy family. She
However he was a wealthy family with Daisy, he is is popular and
deeply ambitious that was the book’s chief beautiful. She met
and determined something of a representation of and fell in love with
to be successful. clan. His family old money, and Gatsby and promised
Learn from the made their what it means to wait for him to
wealth from Dan money from and looks like to return from the war.
Cody and wholesale be a member of However, she was
inherited the hardware that class. pressured from her
fortune from Dan business. family to married to
Cody. Tom Buchanan
instead.

Jordan Baker Meyer Wolfsheim Myrtle Wilson George Wilson

An older aunt Gatsby’s friend, a She loved her She married Myrtle
who controls her prominent figure in husband when they wearing a borrow
money, she is the organized crime. got married, but suit. They have been
heirless to a Wolftsheim helped has since been living above the
significant Gatsby to make his disappointed by his garage. George seems
amount of money fortune by lack of cash and resigned to his
but, she doesn’t social status, and working class life.
bootlegging illegal
have full access to now feels stifled by Although Myrtle
liquor.
it. her twelve-year claims to no longer
marriage. care for George, he
still seems in smitten
with her.
DIRECTIONS: Write details aboit the character in the box in the box on the left. On the box on the right,
answer the questions about the character, and support your answers with textual evidence and
explanations.

Nick Carraway Is the character round or flat (circle one)

_____________ Textual Evidence
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Jay Gatsby Is the character round or flat (circle one)

_____________ Textual Evidence
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Tom Buchanan Is the character round or flat (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Daisy Buchanan Is the character round or flat (circle one)

_____________ Textual Evidence
_____________ (quote):"_________________________________________________________________
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Jordan Baker Is the character round or flat (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Meyer Is the character round or flat (circle one)

Wolfsheim Textual Evidence
_____________ (quote):"_________________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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Myrtle Wilson Is the character round or flat (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence
_____________ (quote):"_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________" (___)
_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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George B. Is the character round or flat (circle one)

Wilson Textual Evidence
_____________ (quote):"_________________________________________________________________
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_____________ Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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_____________ Is the character static or dyanamic? (circle one)
_____________ Textual Evidence (quote): "___________________________________________________
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The character main conflict internal or external? (circle one)
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Textual Evidence (quote) "___________________________________________________
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