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Read an in-depth analysis of Meyer Wolfsheim. A list of all the characters in The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby characters include: Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, Owl Eyes, Klipspringer, Meyer Wolfsheim.
Daisy Buchanan. …is a distant cousin of Nick Carraway and the object of Gatsby’s obsession. She is the beautiful and seductive daughter of a wealthy Mid West family. Having rejected the penniless officer, Jay Gatsby, during the Second World War, and marrying the wealthy sports star, Tom Buchanan, she now lives with him in Long Island, New York.
Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful, socially popular young woman who has lived a privileged life and is one of the main characters in the novel. She’s married to Tom, a wealthy although loveless man. The two live in East Egg together. Daisy is Gatsby’s love interest.
Tom Buchanan. A former football player and Yale graduate who marries Daisy Buchanan. The oldest son of an extremely wealthy and successful "old money" family, Tom has a veneer of gentlemanly manners that barely veils a self-centered, sexist, racist, violent ogre of a man beneath.
Henry Gatz. Henry is the father of Jay Gatsby. Ewing Klipspringer. Ewing is Gatsby's frequent guest who leeches off the rich man's wealth. Chester McKee. Chester is a photographer who, with his wife, Lucille, lives in the New York apartment below the apartment rented by Tom Buchanan.
The bookish protagonist of the movie, Nick Carraway is a WWI veteran, a Yale graduate, and an aspiring bonds salesman on Wall Street. When we first meet him, he is at a sanatarium, diagnosed with alcoholism, anxiety, fits of anger and insomnia. He looks back ruefully on his experiences living in New York, pained by his memories of the past and ...
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The Great Gatsby Main Characters – Introduction. Nick Carraway, the narrator, is Daisy Buchanan’s cousin and friend of Jay Gastby’s. Daisy and Gatsby had a relationship in the past but when he left to serve in the war, Daisy married Tom. Tom Buchanan is an aggressive and untrustworthy man and it is obvious that Daisy still loves Gatsby.
