SAT小说背景系列 - The Great Gatsby（二）

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SAT小说背景系列——The Great Gatsby （二）

今天外朗小编继续给“烤鸭”们介绍《伟大的盖茨比》这本小说的主要人物。 Jay Gatsby

1. Incredibly wealthy and throws lavish weekly parties attended by socialites. He lives in an incredibly gaudy mansion in West Egg.

2. His childhood background is not fully revealed until much later in the story where the source of his wealth is called in to question.

3. Madly in love with Daisy Buchanan who he meets when a young soldier. Nick Carraway

1. He is the narrator of the story and explains Gatsby’s story. At the end of Chapter 3, Nick says “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” This makes him a reliable narrator and also is a statement on the current society where many people are dishonest and fake.

2. A humble young man from the Midwest who arrives in New York to learn the bond business.

3. He is the cousin of Daisy and helps Gatsby in his quest to win her back. Conflicted with the East Coast lifestyle: he loves the fast-paced, hedonistic lifestyle but at the same time is repelled by the shallowness and lurid moral values Daisy Buchanan

1. Nick’s cousin and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman, Daisy was courted by a number of men, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him.

However, when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all.

2. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is bitter and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband’s constant infidelity. Tom Buchanan

1. Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick’s social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant,

hypocritical bully.

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2. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. 3. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

好了，主要人物就介绍到这，希望同学能对这些人物有个大概的了解，有助于理解SAT阅读考试内容哦。

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