Gatsby Life Timeline Answer Key

This worksheet asks students to arrange ten mixed-up events from Gatsby’s life-stretching from his youth to his tragic end-into their correct chronological order. Through this sequencing task, students piece together Gatsby’s transformation from James Gatz into the self-invented figure who pursues Daisy at all costs. The reflection question pushes them to connect the past and present, highlighting how Gatsby’s early dreams, hardships, and reinvention shaped the choices he later makes in pursuit of wealth and belonging. This encourages students to view character development as a chain of cause and effect.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Plot Sequencing and Structural Reasoning

Understanding Character Development Across Time

Narrative Cause and Effect

Analytical Paragraph Writing

This worksheet is part of our Great Gatsby Worksheets collection.