The Great Gatsby Chapter 4 Summary

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.

Skipping ahead of where we left off last chapter, chapter 6 starts by giving us more background on Gatsby through Nick. We find out that Jay Gatsby is actually a made up persona from James Gatz, and his actual background seems to be in sharp contrast with that of Jay Gatsby’s. He spent his childhood in Minnesota where he met who seems to have played a major impact on Gatsby’s character, and older man named Cody, who took Gatsby under his wing and essentially brought Jay Gatsby to life. Another downside to Gatsby's American dream is that it has, in essence, stunted his growth, intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

In Chapter 1, the narrator introduces himself as Nick Carraway and talks about himself and his father. He describes himself as tolerant but fails to realizes his views are very biased and speaks with pity to those who “haven't had the advantages that you've had,” as his father says. Nick comes from a well-known Mid-Western family, and graduated from Yale (as his ancestors have) in 1915. After fighting in World War I, he comes home restless and decides to learn the bond business. His father finances Nick for a year and Nick lives in a house on West Egg. He talks about West and East Egg. West Egg is the less fashionable of the two, and consists of new money. He lives between Gatsby's mansion and another millionaire. East Egg consists

Chapter seven starts with Gatsby changing his whole life around. He no longer hosts parties every week, he doesn't need to anymore because he has Daisy. He also fires his past servants and replaces them with workers of Meyer Wolfsheim, since he does not want any gossip around him. To Nick’s surprise, Gatsby was headed over to Tom’s house to have lunch. It is the hottest day of the year when this lunch is happening. The group hears Tom yelling at Mr.Wilson on the telephone. Gatsby sees Pammy, Daisy’s daughter and is somewhat irritated because he realizes how much more complicated the situation had become and the fact that there is living proof of Tom and Daisy’s love. Tom finds out about the affair when Daisy’s tone shifted when she spoke to

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.

Chapter four begins with Nick listing the people who attended Gatsby's party. Then he describes the trip he and Gatsby took to New York to eat lunch. On the way there, Gatsby talks about his past, but to Nick his story seems improbable. Gatsby claims to be the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks Gatsby where he is from, he replied, “San Francisco.” Gatsby then claims to have been taught at Oxford, collected jewels in Europe, hunted big game, and has been awarded medals in World War I. To prove himself, he shows Nick a medal from Montenegro and a picture of himself playing cricket at Oxford.

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

Main Idea: In a large part, thanks to Freud, a lot of things can be interpreted as being sexual in nature, and this is definitely true in literature. Even before Freud, sexual symbolism has run rampant in literature since its existence. For instance, in Chivalric Romance, the Knight with his Lance and the Holy Grail are all connected to the idea of sexuality. Foster explores the range of scenes that can be created to symbolize sex, without it actually being sex. In literature a lot of times, sexual acts are actually disguised as something different entirely or at least not explicitly shown.

In Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the jealousy of man and what it can make a person do is clearly shown through the possessive tone of Tom. The first example of this comes in the following quotations from Tom himself: “‘You think I’m pretty dumb, don’t you?’ he suggested. ‘Perhaps I am, but I have almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don’t believe that, but science----’” and further down the page, “‘I’ve had an investigation of this fellow[Gatsby],’ he continued. ‘I could have gone deeper if I’d known----’”(109). In this quote, it is clear from the diction of his diatribe that Tom is angry, not at those around him but at Gatsby. This is shown in the above quote by Tom refusing to mention Gatsby by name but rather just calls him fellow. Another aspect that works in tandem with diction in the above quote to create the tone is punctuation. This is shown in the dashes that fall at the end of the above quotation. These dashes show that Tom is so frustrated and angry that he actually cannot finish the sentence. Another example of Fitzgerald's use of punctuation falls in his use of a question mark and a rhetorical question rather than openly making the

“All the bright precious things fade so fast and they don’t come back.” Daisy Buchanan's words which can be applied to the dreams that the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby all chased throughout the story. In The Great Gatsby, the story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a veteran who dreams of making it rich on Wall Street. Everyone chases their own dreams; meanwhile surrounded by the iconic lifestyle that defined the 1920’s and the corrupt world that Fitzgerald depicts. Things take a dark turn when Tom Buchanan finds out about his wife’s affair with Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby the protagonist seeks out his dreams which are destroyed after he finally gets the chance to live them out. Fitzgerald’s use of setting, motifs, and symbolism clearly convey a theme of dream chasing particularly with the notoriously infamous Jay Gatsby.

1 in the beginning of the book the narrator, nick caraway, describes himself. He then goes on to tell how one summer he move out to New York, west egg. West egg was a place for people that were rich but didn’t know any important people. Those kinds of people lived in east egg. Nick then goes to visit his cousin, Daisy, who is leaving in east egg. When he gets there he is greeted by her husband, tom. He is a sporting man and also a racist. When they are eating dinner he gets a phone call that daisy’s friend Jordan says is from his lover. Nick then goes home and sees Mr. Gatsby standing on his dock.

During chapter 7, at lunch, Gatsby and Daisy seem to unveil their feelings for eachother and Tom seems to have realized what has been going on between them. Daisy says that they should go into town, but after saying something to Gatsby, Tom picks up on the situation and starts to make things tense. Tom insists that they do go into town, so they do. Tom takes Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan though Gatsby says that he his running low on gasoline; Gatsby and Daisy take Tom’s car. Once Tom, Nick, and Daisy stop for gas at the Wilson's’ shop we learn that Mr. Wilson has found out that his wife is cheating on, though he doesn't know who with and says that he is going to move them somewhere far away.

At the beginning of Chapter Four, Gatsby shows up at Nick 's door and tells him that they are having lunch in New York. On the way to lunch, Gatsby feels the need to clarify his past with Nick to make sure there is not any confusion about the topic. Nick, being suspicious of the fact that he was born into a wealthy Midwest family (in San Francisco) and educated at Oxford, "a family tradition", lets this go as a policeman pulls them over for speeding but lets them go after Gatsby shows the police a white card. Gatsby says that after touring Europe, he served, as a major in the military where he “tried very hard to die” but in his own words, “seemed to bear an enchanted life.” At lunch, Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, a professional gambler and the man rumored to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Nick also learns from Jordan Baker that in 1917, she met Daisy and an unknown military officer who watched Daisy 's every move. “The officer? Jay Gatsby.” However, Daisy 's parents didn 't approve, and she eventually moved to Tom, now her husband. Jordan tells Nick that on the day before her wedding to Tom, she broke down drunk reconsidering her decision but decided to go through with the wedding, though. The next April, Daisy and Tom had their girl. Gatsby still has an interest in Daisy. Apparently, it was not a coincidence that brought him to West Egg: He chose his house so that the house of his lost love would be just across the bay. Gatsby wishes that Nick invited Daisy over on an

In Chapter 8: Things Fall Apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia, Oliver Sacks examines these two neurological conditions. He states that there are numerous factors involved, all connected with the perception, deciphering, and combination of sound and time, and hence that there are numerous types of amusia. Sacks indicates that A. L. Benton (in his chapter on the amusias in Critchley and Henson's Music and the Mind) admits "responsive" from "interpretive" or "performance" amusia, and distinguishes more than twelve types. By and large, however, types of rhythm deafness are not common, in light of the fact that rhythm is portrayed broadly in the brain. Approximately five percent of the population suffer from true tone deafness, and individuals with such

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