The Great Gatsby Answers Study Guide Graded A+

6. What irony is found in the top paragraph on page 170? {Ans: At the Swastika Holding Company, there is a Jewess working.}24. Analyze the significance of Nick's statement "... 'I just remembered that today's my birthday.' I was thirty." (Pg. 135) {Ans: This statement is significant because this is the day that Gatsby's dream dies. The dream that Gatsby has lived for is no more. Also, 1929 is the year that the American dream dies; the next year, America is in her thirties and in the throes of the Great Depression. It seems as though Fitzgerald signals the end of dreams as Nick turns 30.}8. Where do Gatsby and Nick go for lunch? Whom do they meet? {Ans: At "roaring noon," Gatsby and Nick enter a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar for lunch. There they meet Mr. Wolfsheim, an associate of Gatsby's.}10. Interpret the oxymoron on page 6: "two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all." {Ans: The phrase containing the oxymoron "Old friends" is a term used to indicate deep friendships, and, yet, Nick states he scarcely knows them. Perhaps this foreshadows the fact that even though he thinks he knows them, he will