Alison Larkin Presents: The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button characters

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A young Midwesterner who moves to Long Island in 1922 to work in the bond business. He rents a modest house in West Egg and narrates the wealthy social world he enters, trying to reserve judgment while remaining alert to its evasions.

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Nick's cousin, living across the bay in fashionable East Egg with her husband Tom. Charming and restless beneath a polished manner, she confides that her marriage is troubled.

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Daisy's immensely wealthy husband and a former college football player. Physically imposing, arrogant, and openly prejudiced, he conducts an affair while expecting his own household to remain secure.

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A professional golfer and friend of Daisy's whom Nick meets at the Buchanans' home. Cool, self-contained, and socially observant, she becomes Nick's guide to people and rumors he does not yet understand.

First appears in chapter 2

The owner of an automobile garage in the industrial valley between Long Island and New York. Worn down and unsuspecting, he lives over the business with his wife Myrtle.

First appears in chapter 2

George Wilson's energetic wife and Tom Buchanan's mistress. Dissatisfied with her working-class life, she adopts an expansive, status-conscious manner when Tom brings her into Manhattan.

First appears in chapter 3

Nick's wealthy and mysterious neighbor in West Egg, known for enormous parties that attract guests who often have never met him. Courteous and intensely attentive when he finally appears, he remains curiously separate from the revelry while rumors leave his history unclear.

First appears in chapter 4

A gambler and business associate of Gatsby's whom Nick meets at lunch. His underworld connections make the sources of Gatsby's wealth appear less romantic than the stories circulating at the parties.

First appears in chapter 10

A Baltimore man born in 1860 with the body and appearance of an elderly person. Although his family insists on treating him as a newborn, he can speak, reason, and express the needs suggested by his unusual physical age.

First appears in chapter 10

Benjamin's father, a socially conventional Baltimore businessman. Horrified by his son's elderly appearance, he tries to preserve respectability by clothing and treating Benjamin as an ordinary infant.

First appears in chapter 13

The daughter of General Moncrief, admired in Baltimore society. She is attracted to Benjamin's apparent maturity and distinguishes him from younger men, unaware that his outward age is moving in the opposite direction from hers.

First appears in chapter 13

Hildegarde's father, a socially prominent retired general. He regards Benjamin as a mature and acceptable suitor, judging him by the age and bearing he appears to possess.

First appears in chapter 17

Benjamin and Hildegarde's son. As Benjamin grows outwardly younger, Roscoe becomes the conventional adult of the household and is embarrassed by the social difficulties his father's condition creates.