Character guide
Who's who in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925): meet the 11 main characters, see how they connect, and open a detailed profile for each.
11 illustrated profiles
Also known as Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby
Nick's enigmatic next-door neighbour in West Egg, a fabulously wealthy young man who throws dazzling summer parties for hundreds of strangers. Gracious, watchful, and faintly mysterious, he is the subject of endless rumour, addressing everyone as 'old sport' while revealing little of himself.
Bonds:TomStrained acquaintancesNickNew acquaintancesMeyerBest friendsDanBest friends
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Also known as Nick, Mr. Carraway
The novel's narrator, a young Midwesterner from a comfortable family who has come East to learn the bond business and rents a modest cottage in West Egg beside Gatsby's mansion. Tolerant, observant, and inclined to reserve judgement, he becomes the quiet confidant of nearly everyone he meets.
Bonds:TomSocial acquaintancesGatsbyNew acquaintancesDaisyCordial acquaintancesJordanNew acquaintances
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Also known as Daisy, Mrs. Buchanan
Nick's charming, well-born cousin and the wife of the wealthy Tom Buchanan, living in fashionable East Egg. Beautiful and light-hearted on the surface, her musical voice captivates everyone, though a restless boredom and quiet unhappiness flicker beneath her gaiety.
Bonds:TomSpousesJordanSocial companionsNickCordial acquaintances
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Also known as Tom, Mr. Buchanan
Daisy's immensely wealthy, imposing husband, a former football star from a rich old family now settled in East Egg. Domineering, restless, and casually cruel, he carries himself with the swagger of a man used to getting his way and makes little secret of his contempt for those beneath him.
Bonds:DaisySpousesGatsbyStrained acquaintancesNickSocial acquaintancesMyrtleParamours
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Also known as Jordan, Miss Baker
A cool, self-assured professional golfer and Daisy's longtime friend, moving in the same rich, leisured world. Wry, incurably casual, and a little dishonest, she becomes Nick's companion through the summer and a knowing observer of everyone around her.
Bonds:DaisySocial companionsNickNew acquaintancesMeyerBusiness intermediary
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Also known as Myrtle, Mrs. Wilson
George Wilson's restless, vital wife, who lives above her husband's garage in the desolate valley of ashes. Hungry for the glamour and wealth she feels cheated of, she is Tom Buchanan's mistress and comes alive with feverish, self-important energy whenever she escapes to the city.
Bonds:TomParamoursCatherineSistersGeorgeMarried couple
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Also known as Wilson, George, George B. Wilson
The worn-down owner of a run-down auto garage in the valley of ashes and Myrtle's husband. Handsome in a faded, exhausted way, he is honest, dull, and worshipfully devoted to his wife, dreaming vaguely of scraping together enough money to move West.
Bonds:MyrtleMarried couple
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Also known as Wolfshiem, Mr. Wolfshiem, Meyer
A shrewd New York gambler and Gatsby's business associate, reputed to be the man who fixed the 1919 World's Series. Sentimental and dangerous by turns, he dines in shadowy restaurants, talks of old 'gonnegtions,' and keeps a wary eye on every room he enters.
Bonds:GatsbyBest friendsNickIntroduced acquaintancesJordanBusiness intermediary
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Also known as Owl Eyes
A bespectacled, half-drunk guest discovered marvelling in Gatsby's library, astonished to find that the books lining the shelves are real rather than cardboard props. Owlish, garrulous, and oddly perceptive beneath his tipsiness, he drifts through Gatsby's parties as a bemused observer.
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Also known as Cody
A grizzled, self-made mining millionaire who made his fortune in the silver and copper rushes of the West and then roamed the coasts aboard his yacht. Robust but softening with age and drink, he was a hard-living relic of the frontier from Gatsby's younger days.
Bonds:GatsbyBest friends
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Also known as Catherine
Myrtle Wilson's worldly younger sister, who lives with a girlfriend at a hotel and moves easily through the city's fashionable, gossipy party set. Chatty and self-possessed, she trades in rumours about Gatsby and eagerly encourages her sister's affair.
Bonds:MyrtleSisters
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The Great Gatsby is a psychological novel of observation, social contrast, and romantic possibility, set among the wealthy communities of Long Island in the summer of 1922. Its narrator, Nick Carraway, arrives from the Midwest to learn the bond business and rents a modest house near extravagant estates, including the mansion of the enigmatic Gatsby. Through Nick’s wary but receptive perspective, the book examines rich people, married women, first loves, and the uneasy gap between outward privilege and private feeling. The setting is bright with lawns, water, automobiles, fashionable houses, and promises of a new beginning, yet Nick’s judgments suggest that glamour and moral uncertainty will remain closely linked.
Fitzgerald’s prose is elegant, observant, and richly figurative, moving easily from dry social comedy to lyrical descriptions of weather, bodies, voices, and landscapes. Nick’s voice is reflective and intimate: he tries to reserve judgment while recognizing that tolerance has limits, and he is drawn to Gatsby’s extraordinary hope even as he distrusts the world surrounding it. Written in the atmosphere of the early Jazz Age and shaped by the restlessness following the Great War, the novel suits readers who enjoy polished narration, emotional ambiguity, class tensions, and portraits of people whose self-invention may be as compelling as their circumstances.
Every cast illustrated from the original text.
