Chapter Four Flashcards
What does Nick read out?
A list of prominent guests who attended Gatsby’s parties but none of them knew anything about their host.
Where does Nick describe going with Gatsby?
Accompanying him on a trip into the city for lunch in Gatsby’s monstrous coloured car.
What does Gatsby claim to be?
The son of wealthy parents in the ‘midwest’ town of San Fransisco, to have graduated from Oxford, a noted jewel collector in Europe and a decorated soldier.
What does Gatsby show Nick and tell him to expect to hear?
Shows him a war medal and tells him to expect to hear a sad story about Gatsby later in the afternoon.
Why is Gatsby’s explanation of his past sketchy?
How is he a midwesterner and from San Fransisco?
What has Gatsby had to give up to achieve the American Dream?
His entire history and has to reinvent himself in typical new money fashion.
What suggests Gatsby has more of a story than he lets on?
His influence over the police - is pulled over for speeding, shows a little card and the officer apologises.
Who do they meet for lunch?
Gatsby’s business partner - Mayer Wolfsheim.
What does Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby?
Gatsby is a man of ‘fine breeding’ who would ‘never so much look at a friends wife’.
What does Wolfsheim tell Nick he was behind?
The man behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series - making Nick begin to believe Gatsby is involved in organised crime.
What are Wolfsheim and Gatsby examples of?
Corruption of the American Dream.
Who does Nick introduce Gatsby to on the way out of the restaurant?
Tom Buchanan - but Gatsby seems embarrassed and leaves without saying goodbye.
What does the interaction between Gatsby and Tom Buchanan foreshadow?
The rivalry between Tom and Gatsby as well as old and new money.
Who does Nick meet after lunch and what does she tell him?
Jordan Baker - She tells Nick Gatsby told her the most ‘amazing thing’ - that as a young man he had a passionate affair with Daisy Fay, now Daisy Buchanan.
How did Gatsby and Daisy meet each other?
During the war - Daisy not yet twenty - they met whilst Gatsby was stationed in Louisville and fell in love.
Why did Daisy and Gatsby not marry?
Daisy’s family prevented her from leaving and marrying him and one year later she married Tom Buchanan.
What did Tom Buchanan gift Daisy when they first got married?
Gave her a string of pearls worth $350,000 and a three month honeymoon to the South Seas.
What did Gatsby reinvent himself in service of?
The real American Dream - True love.
When Jordan finishes her story later in central park, what does she tell Nick?
Gatsby never fell out of love and bought his mansion in West Egg to be across the bay from her.
What did Gatsby hope his mansion would achieve?
It would impress Daisy and win back her love.
What does Nick realise about the green light Gatsby gazes at?
That it sits on the end of Daisy’s dock.
What does Jordan tell Nick that Gatsby has requested of him?
That Nick invites Daisy over for tea and then Gatsby will come over so Daisy has to see him as Gatsby fears she does not want to see him.
