Chapter 4 Flashcards
List of guests’ names
pg 61
Gatsby’s past is told by him
pg 64
Foreshadowing of death
pg 67
Meyer Wolfsheim
pg 68-72
Gatsby and Daisy’s past told by Jordan
pg 73-75
The context for Chapter 4
Based of Arnold Rothstein who was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman and gambler
Certainly, something Rothstein was thought to be involved in as he had a reputation for organised corruption in professional athletics
Alleged to have paid some members of the Chicago White Sox to lose games so that the Cincinnati Reds would win and make bookmakers a fortune
Placed a bet against them winning and made a lot of money
Herman Rosy Rosenthal
The reference to Rosy actually based upon a real-life event
191 Herman Rosenthal complained to the press that his illegal casinos had been badly damaged by the gree of the corrupt New York Police who extorted money in exchange for immunity from police interference