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

Nick knows that Gatsby lies because Gatsby wants people to respect him and he does not want to face the reality that he comes from a poor family. Moreover, Nick knows about Daisy and Gatsby's past relationship and how Gatsby cannot face the reality that Daisy is married to Tom. Gatsby presses Daisy to tell him that she never loved Tom. Gatsby wants to deny the truth and wants to bring back the old days he spent with Daisy.

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

Jordan says, “He wants to know, if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over” (78). Gatsby uses Nick to reconnect with Daisy, because he is a mutual friend between the two. Nick is not only connected to the main characters but also has an amicable personality.

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

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.

Nick is very secluded from the group and tends to be an outcast. He leaves everything bottled up within himself and does not discuss it with the others. (Fitzgerald 1)”I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened many curious natures to me”. This quote discusses how Nick keeps everything to himself and how it has opened all gossip he hears. Throughout the novel uses Gatsby uses nick for support, reassurance, and to be able to see Daisy. (Fitzgerald 79)“Why didn't he ask you to arrange a meeting? He wants her to see his house and your house is right next door”. Nick here is being used by Gatsby to be able to daisy again. Everyone comes to nick and tells him all these things all he can really do is listen. For example, Tom telling Nick about his mistress knowingly that he is Daisy's cousin. Overall Nick is a character that sees everything but does not discuss it with the others he keeps to himself. This makes him an honest and loyal person.

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 the Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby takes Carraway into town for lunch in cover of him trying to win Daisy’s love.

In this blog post I will be exploring chapters 4-6 and more specifically Daisy and Gatsby's characters, along with their relationship. Also, how they were displayed an increased amount throughout chapters 4-6.

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

The Great Gatsby, is a novel authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is narrated in first-person by a character named Nick Carraway. The novel transpires in Long Island, New York and occasionally New York City in the fictional towns of East Egg and West Egg in the early 1920’s. The story begins when Nick Carraway moves from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, a town for the newly rich, seeking wealth and fortune as a bond salesman. Soon after his arrival, he embarks to the East Egg, a fashionable town. He visits his immensely wealthy cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan whom he knew in university and they are joined by a professional golfer, Jordan Baker. After witnessing the privileged lives of the East Egg residents, Nick returns to his cottage and observes his neighbor, a mysterious and affluent man by the name of Jay Gatsby, outstretching his hand toward a solitary green light. One day, Nick invites Tom to meet his mistress in the valley of ashes, a dismal and decaying town coinciding the city and the suburbs. The afternoon is filled with drunken behavior and ends with a fight between Tom and his mistress, Myrtle, over Daisy where Tom breaks Myrtle's nose. Following the incident, Nick turns his attention towards the weekly extravagant parties of Gatsby for wealthy and fashionable. Upon a noteworthy invitation, Nick attends the vast celebration and meets with Jordan Baker. Both Jordan and Nick meet Gatsby, who no one at the party has ever seen. Jordan and

Basically Nick tells us about being non-judgmental and how people tell him their life stories because of his non-judgmental listening guy attitude