The Great Gatsby Excerpt #2 Reading Worksheet
This section of the novel has two parts: the first part is the story of Gatsby’s early life; the
second tells of Tom’s visit to Gatsby’s house. At this point in the novel, Gatsby and Daisy have
started seeing each other again, but Tom doesn’t know about their affair.
1. Why does the reporter want to talk to Gatsby?
2. What is Gatsby’s real name?
3. Who were Gatsby’s parents?
4. Who is Dan Cody, and what was his relationship to Gatsby?
5. Why have Tom and his friends stopped by Gatsby’s house?
6. Why does Gatsby insist on making Tom remember him?
7. How is Gatsby embarrassed by the Sloanes?
8-10. How does this passage help explain Gatsby? “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby
that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to
the end.” (Use the back of the page to write a thorough reflection on this question.)