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Jay Gatsby is a handsome, mysterious, young millionaire, whom no one seems to know much about.
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Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom, Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves is sardonic and somewhat cynical. She has a sort of excitement in her voice, "full of money", as Gatsby says, that lures men in. |
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Tom Buchanan, husband of Daisy, is racist, sexist, unfaithful and arrogant. |
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Myrtle Wilson is Tom's mistress as well as the wife of Wilson. |
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Nick Carraway, honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, is the narrator of The Great Gatsby. |
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Jordan Baker is a compulsive liar with whom Nick becomes romantically involved. She cheated to win a big golf tournament. |