Baby: Called 'Pammy,' she is mentioned only twice although Daisy is her mother. When a nurse brings the child out, Daisy ignores the child's question about the whereabouts of her father, admiring how beautiful the girl is, just like her. She wishes only that her baby be a 'beautiful little fool' since Daisy thinks she has had such a hard life herself.
Catherine: Myrtle's sister, she seems possessive over the furniture in Tom's New York apartment and does not drink. On the night of Myrtle's death she is found to be in a drunken stupor and later denies any claims that her sister had been cheating on George after he shot Gatsby in a jealous rage and then shot himself.
Chester McKee: A photographer who attended Tom's little party in New York, McKee behaves according to some deep artistic insight, examining Myrtle's figure as potential for her to be one of his models. He ignores his wife when she offers advice, and bores Nick after taking him back to his own room to show him picture after picture that he has taken of scenes from New York and Long Island. He said he had been to one of Gatsby's parties.
Mrs. McKee: She claims to be quite happily married to her husband when Myrtle laments her own troubles. In admiring Myrtle's dress so much, the woman gives the dress to Mrs. McKee although it had been a gift of Tom. Mrs. McKee's husband, Chester, ignores her when she offers advice.
Owl Eyes: Bearing a pair of spectacles, he is found drunkenly muttering about the books in Gatsby's library. When a car's wheel breaks off after the party, he is the passenger in the car and appears later at the funeral already waiting for Nick's arrival. He expresses disgust that so few had come to bury Gatsby.
Meyer Wolfsheim: An older man about fifty years old, he recalls memories in his past and about business 'gonnegtions.' He involved Gatsby in shady business dealings to build up his wealth and supposedly fixed the World Series in 1919. He declines to attend the funeral since he has learned to show friendship when men are alive and not dead.
Klipspringer: A free boarder at Gatsby's mansion, he seems ungrateful by refusing to play the piano for Jay and Daisy, complaining that he's too tired. He is unable to attend Gatsby's funeral since he has to go to a picnic in Connecticut instead and asks Nick to mail him a pair of shoes he had left at the mansion. Disgusted, Carraway hangs up the phone without a response.
Dan Cody: Serving as a mentor in Jay's youth, Cody was a millionaire yachtsman whose inheritance was invalidated by a woman, Ella Kaye, and Gatsby was left only with the education this man had given him about how to live. A picture of Cody hangs on the wall in his mansion.
Ella Kaye: A love interest of Dan Cody, who invalidated Cody's last will in order to get the $25,000 Dan left as an inheritance to Jay Gatsby. Jay sees Ella as a simple gold digger, who patiently bided her time, but doesn't feel bitter about the money because he feels he gained so much in experience from Dan.
Biloxi: This man had fainted at Daisy's wedding due to the heat. Buchanan calls him a fraud since Biloxi had told Daisy he was president of Tom's class at Yale University. But Tom's class didn't even have a president.
Michaelis: This Greek man ran a restaurant near Wilson's gas station in the ash heap and comforts him after his wife is killed. Worried at hearing his irrational words, Michaelis had stayed with him at the garage until going home for a nap late at night. George then sneaked out across Long Island to find the man who killed his wife.
Henry C. Gatz: The father of Gatsby, Gatz talks about how great his son had been and how much potential he had. Jay had bought Gatz's house for him in Minnesota in spite of telling Nick that all of his family was dead. Although Gatsby seemed to be the least proud of his homely father, in the end it is this man who comes from halfway across the country to bury his son while Daisy, whom Gatsby had loved for five years, fails to appear.
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