Chapter 4 Of The Great Gatsby

After Nick arrives home from a date with Jordan, Nick gets disturbed by Gatsby who tries everything to convince Nick to set up a date with Daisy. Nick finally agrees and invites Daisy for tea. By the time Daisy arrives it starts to rain, Gatsby enters to meet her but it is not successful until a while later they start to warm-up and have a good time. Daisy is the object of desire and passion for Gatsby, she has dominated his life for the past couple years. His original love for her has developed into a love for the idea of her that has let his imagination fill in the blanks which is just setting him up for disappointment. She didn't become emotional with Gatsby until she saw all of his processions, this disappointment will remind Gatsby

This chapter opens with a reporter at Gatsby’s door asking him if he had anything to say and wants to interview at random. It is explained that rumors are constantly going around New York about Gatsby. Nick knows mostly all about Gatsby’s personal life so he does not believe many or all of the rumors he has heard. Nick then begins to explain Gatsby’s personal life. It is explained that his legal name is James Gatz. He changed his name when he was 17 when he saw Dan Cody drop the anchor of his yacht into Lake Superior. It is also explained that Gatsby’s parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”. He actually had attended a small Lutheran college called St. Olaf’s in Minnesota. He only ended up staying there for two weeks then left.

At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West of America for the North where he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was originally supposed to share a house in West Egg near New York City with an associate of his, but the man backed out and so Nick lived with only a Finnish cook. Right next door, Gatsby lived in a glorious mansion with expansive gardens and a marble swimming pool, among other luxuries. Yet Nick did not even hear about Gatsby until he went to visit his

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 Read the beginning of the novel chapter 1 up to page 12 “Tom Buchanan in his riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.” How effective do you find this as an introduction to Great Gatsby. In your response you should pay close attention to voice, language and style. The Great Gatsby was written by F Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, and is set during 1922, a period tinged with moral failure of a society obsessed with class and privilege.

At the beginning of the book Nick sees Gatsby as a mysterious shady man. In the beginning of the chapter Nick somewhat resents Gatsby. In Nick’s opinion Gatsby was the representation of “…everything for

“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes” (91).

Chapter 4 starts off with Nick providing a list of all the guests who attended Gatsby’s parties in the summer and the irony is that none of them actually knew him. When Nick accompanies Gatsby on a trip into the city for lunch, he reveals the truth about his past. Gatsby states that he is from a wealthy family from the Midwest town of San Francisco, he graduated from Oxford, and declared himself a hero in the war. During lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to his former business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim who apparently fixed the 1919 World Series. Based on the conversation, Nick begins to think that Gatsby is involved in an organized crime. When they leave the restaurant, they come across Tom Buchanan and as Nick introduces Gatsby to him, Gatsby becomes

As the summer goes on, Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s big parties. He meets Jordan at the party and they meet Gatsby himself, a young man, a great smile, and tells everyone “old sport”. Later on in the party Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan Baker alone. Nick learns that the parties were all to get and impress Daisy. Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over to his to tea, so Gatsby can meet her. When Daisy and Gatsby meet each other for the first time in five years it starts off awkward, then they start talking to each other. Gatsby tells her about how rich he is now and invites her over to his house. Daisy and Gatsby then begin the affair between each other as their relationship grows. Later, Gatsby get invited to Daisy’s house where Tom starts

“Who was this Great Gatsby, and where did he hail from?” This was the question on everyone’s lips. Described as a “young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, he had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced -or seemed to face- the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an

The setting in the last chapter is unchanged from the start of the novel, which suggests that Alex’s persona has behaved the same way. Even as Alex moves from place to place, the settings match up. At the beginning of chapter seven of part three, Alex is once again sitting in the Korova Milkbar with three other friends. At this point, the story seems to come full circle and creates a sense of Déjà vu since the setting of the first page was the same place. Burgess begins to incorporate a sense of change in the last chapter when Alex explains “the heighth of fashion, which in those days was these very wide trousers and a very loose black shiny leather like jerkin over an open-necked shirt with a scarf tucked in” (Burgess 201). This contrasts

Foremost, however, this light greatly influences the characterization of Gatsby. In Chapter 1, when Gatsby reaches for the light, the reader becomes confused and does not know what to make of this strange man oddly extending his arms while no one is around. After understanding Gatsby’s past, though, and knowing what it is he is reaching for, the reader can deduce much about Gatsby’s character from this action. By reaching out for his dream, Gatsby shows his determination to win Daisy back; this solitary motion demonstrates his level of commitment to her. After realizing this, the reader can also begin to associate more of Gatsby’s actions, such as his gain of wealth, with the American dream because it is understood that the quest for Daisy is closely tied in with this theme (21). After this event with Gatsby, Fitzgerald chooses to focus on another peculiar object, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes. It is this unusual amount of attention given to such a solitary entity that alerts the reader that a deeper meaning may exist than what the author expresses.

In chapter 4 Jordan Baker narrates the love story of Gatsby and Daisy, but in the end Gatsby didn’t get the girl because he didn’t have the money. Unfortunately, “In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago…and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” (p.76). Within the monologue, Jordan explains how Tom, in a way, bribed Daisy to marry him with “a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” Daisy choose the money instead of the guy because she was told that she changed her mind and that she must return the pearls. The next day Daisy married Tom Buchanan. Finally, for some time after, Gatsby became a rich man and his perpetual love for Daisy empowered

It was October 14, 1922, one week before Gatsby got into his car accident, he’s on his way to Daisy’s to confess how much he truly loves her. He arrives to her place and knocks on her door and no answer. And he knows that she is there because she told her to come over at 6:30pm, so he walks in because he is nervous and what he walks into was horrendous.. He walked in and smelled something fishy, almost like there was a rotting animal carcass inside the house. He went upstairs into Daisy’s room and he walks into something he wishes he never seen, Daisy is on the floor, body to the wall, with blood covering the wall where her head is resting. Gatsby runs over to her; “Daisy? Daisy! Daisy!” he says as he shakes her like she's a ragdoll. He finds it, the murder weapon, there is a pistol lying next to Daisy with blood all over the barrel, almost as if someone put the pistol point blank with her head and pulled the trigger.

After Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom leave Tom’s house along with Nick and Jordan, they end up going to a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (Fitzgerald 178). Tom starts arguing with Gatsby about Gatsby’s bad habit of calling everyone “old sport.” This leads to him accusing Gatsby of lying about Gatsby actually attending Oxford. Gatsby gives him permission to ask him any question he would like after he informs Tom that he went to Oxford for five months because he was in an army program. Tom, angry about Gatsby’s reaction, asks him about his feelings for Daisy. He then tells Tom that Daisy loves him and that she never really loved Tom. Tom throws up Gatsby bootlegging in Gatsby’s face. When Daisy realized that Tom had out bested Gatsby as she observed the two argue, she then starts feeling closer to Tom. During the process, Nick all of a sudden realized that it was his thirtieth birthday (Fitzgerald 180). Nick is a veteran of World War I who graduated at Yale University. His family is from the Midwest. His dad taught him when he was young that he should never judge others (Baker).

This chapter begins with Nick explaining curiosity was at his highest for Gatsby and that one Saturday night the lights never went on at his mansion. Nick went over to the mansion and asked is Gatsby was sick and the butler at the door no and then Nick tells him to let Gatsby know that he had stopped by. Nick then was informed that Gatsby fired all of his servants and replaced them with a dozen new shady individuals because he wanted to prevent gossip. The next day Gatsby had called Nick on the phone and he explained that all the new servants were connected to Meyer Wolfsheim. Gatsby then told him that Daisy wanted him to go over to her house the next day for lunch. The next day Nick took the train to East Egg. He arrived at the house to see that Daisy, Jordan and Gatsby are all there. Tom was on the phone with someone then came into the room to greet everyone. He left again and Daisy kissed Gatsby and told him how much she loved him. A nurse then brought Daisy and Tom’s daughter into the room where they all were. Tom shows Gatsby his house and he points out that he lives across the bay. During lunch Daisy explains that she is bored and said that they should all go into town. Daisy and Gatsby lock eyes with each other and then Tom realizes that they love each other and something is seemingly going on between them. They all got ready to leave and Gatsby tells Nick that he can’t say anything in their house because Daisy’s mouth is “full of money”. Tom, Nick and Jordan went in