The Great Gatsby chapter 4

What are the two rumors about Gatsby at the beginning of chapter 4?

He is a bootlegger and he killed a man who had found out that he was a nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

What does it mean to be a leech?

a person who clings to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources;parasite.

who is Klipspringer?

He's a guy that is always at Gatsby's house referred as "the boarder"

What does it mean to be a boarder?

A person that rents a room in someone's home

What quality of Gatsby broke his “punctilious manner”

He was never still, always tapping a foot or closing a hand. He had a nervous grace

Describe Gatsby’s car

“rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.”

How did Nick’s impression of Gatsby’s change

Bc Gatsby didn’t say many words, he went from a person w undefined consequences to a proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse.

Why do you think Gatsby calls Nick "old sport" all the time?

He wants to get to be a really "good friend" to Nick so he can get to Daisy.

Gatsby wants to tell Nick the truth about himself? What is the truth he tells him?

He was the son of wealthy people from the Middle West (San Francisco), his family all died leaving him a great amount of money, he went to Oxford (as did most of his family), then he went around the world living an extravagant life style.

Why does Nick think Gatsby is lying about his past?

Gatsby hurried through the telling of him studying at Oxford, as though he choked on the words.

What are some cities Gatsby has lived in

Paris, Venice, and Rome

Why does Nick finally believe the truth about Gatsby?

He shows him two things: one medal to Major Jay Gatsby for Valour Extraordinary. And the other was a photograph of Gatsby with his classmates at Oxford

'why does Gatsby tell Nick the truth?

Gatsby wants Nick to trust him

What was Gatsby’s position when the war came 

first lieutenant

What did Gatsby do as first lieutenant

took two machine-gun detachments so far that it prevent the the infantry from advancing in the Argonne Forest

How long did Gatsby and his men stay in the Argonne Forest

two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns

Why was Gatsby promoted to major

he wiped the infantry when they came, specifically three German divisions among the piles of dead.

When Gatsby was promoted to major, what did he get from everyone

every Allied government gave him a decoration even Montenegro from the Adriatic Sea

What did Gatsby get from Montenegro

Orderi di Danilo, Montenegro, Nicolas Rex that read Major Jay Gatsby for Valour Extraordinary

When was Gatsby’s souvenir taken and who was in it

Trinity Quad, man on Gatsby’s is Earl of Dorcaster

What was Gatsby holding in the picture

a cricket bat

Why did the policemen let Gatsby go

Gatsby did the commissioner a favor once, and now he sends him a Christmas card every year

How did Nick describe the city from the Queensboro Bridge

its the first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

What type of ppl did Nick and Gatsby pass on their way to lunch?

A dead man, his friends, and two bucks and a girl

What does Wolfsheim look like

a small, flat-nosed Jew with nose hair

What did the waiter ask Gatsby and Wolfsheim

Highball, (the old Metropole?)

What happened to Rosy Rosenthal

He went outside and got shot 3 times. His killers got electrocuted

Describe Meyer Wolfsheim

a business friend of Gatsby and a stereotypical gangster,

What do we learn about Meyer Wolfsheim’s job?

He is a gambler, fixed the 1919 World Series

What did Wolfsheim say his cuff buttons were made out of

human molars

Who does Nick see while he is out to lunch?

Tom

Why is Daisy is upset with Nick?

Because Nick has not telephoned them or visited with her.

What story does Jordan recall from 1917 that she tells Nick. 

She tells of a story that when Daisy was 18 she dated Gatsby and was in love. Her family prevented them from seeing each other and then she married Tom. On her wedding day she received a letter that upset her so much that she got drunk and wanted to call the wedding off. She held the letter in her bath until ti dissolved. The ladies sobered her up and she married Tom and they were in love. Then Tom was caught with another woman, then Daisy had a baby.

Who did Tom cheat on Daisy with

a chambermaid with a broken arm in the Santa Barbara Hotel

How did Tom get caught w a girl

He ran into a wagon on the Ventura road, ripped a front wheel off his car, and got on the news w the girl w the broken arm

Why does Jordan say it’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people

You can hold your tongue and time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care

Why did Gatsby buy his house?

To be close to Daisy

What request is Gatsby making of Nick?

He wants Nick to invite Daisy to his home and let Gatsby "stop by."

Why does Gatsby want Daisy to see his house?

He wants to impress her with his wealth, status, and class.