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Buchanan • • • • football star during time at Yale strong, robust man, powerful body ● ● aggressively self-confident man, no caring husband, not romantic • racist, thinks he belongs to the "dominant and right race" Daisy's husband affair with Myrtle Wilson "old money" (has always been rich) Jordan Baker • good friend of Daisy • amateur golfer • attracted to Nick Myrtle Wilson • affair with Tom • accidently killed by Daisy driving Gatsby's car life-loving but ordinary woman George Wilson • • Meyer Wolfshiem Myrtle's husband, despised by her kills Gatsby in revenge for Myrtle's death lives in Valley of the Ashes • criminal business partner of Gatsby . The "Roaring Twenties" • dramatic social and political changes growing wealth of nation • most important product: automobile • Jazz-music → felt freedom on dance floor alcohol forbidden (to raise moral standard) → rise of mafia women get allowed to vote • the "flapper": young women with bobbed hair, short skirts, drank, smoked, "unladylike", more sexually "free" than the previously generation • • The Great Gatsby portraying the American Dream Gatsby's dream about Daisy was a manifestation of the American dream people trying to make their dreams come true, not realizing that it's far too late • Valley of Ashes displays the American nightmare dangers of the dream and the way Gatsby tries to fulfil it are symbolized with his death