Gatsby Chapter 4 Quotations Flashcards
Give one example of how Nick describes the people who went to Gatsby’s parties that summer:
‘Flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near’
‘Strangled his wife’
‘They came to gamble’
What does Gatsby’s car have?
‘Labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns’
What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?
‘Son of some wealthy people in the Middle West - all dead now’
‘Educated at Oxford’
‘Lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe’
War
What does Nicks think that suggests his viewpoint of Gatsby has changed?
‘I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him’
How does Gatsby justify his elaborate story?
‘A photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers’ from Oxford
On the way to NYC how does Nick describe it?
‘Rising up across the river’
‘White heaps and sugar lumps’
How is the time period reflected by Nicks observation of other cars on the bridge?
‘Driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl’
Wolfsheim is described as a …
‘Small, Flat-nosed Jew’
Wolsheim has an …
‘Expressive nose’
What makes Wolfsheim seem unreliable?
He says that Jordan is a ‘great sportswoman’ whom would ‘ never do anything that wasn’t right’
He also says that Gatsby ‘would never so much as look at a friends wife’
What makes Nick suspect that Gatsby gained his wealth illegally?
Gatsby says that Wolfsheim is a ‘gambler’
What did Wolfsheim do in 1919?
‘He’s the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.’
How does Jordan recall her first meeting with Daisy?
‘I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me’
‘I admired her the most’
In Jordan’s account of Gatsby and Daisy’s love before the war, how does she describe Gatsby’s love for Daisy?
He looked at Daisy ‘in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time’
What did Tom give Daisy on the day before their wedding?
‘a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars’
