| What is the common denominator to all the stories about people who meet at Gatsby’s parties? | People who are using him for money and wealth |
| What was Nick writing on an empty time table? | The names of those who came to Gatsby’s house |
| What happened to Nick’s first impression of Gatsby after Gatsby always had very little to say? | It gradually faded. Gatsby “had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.” |
| Describe Gatsby’s car. | -Rich cream color-Bright with nickel-Triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes-Terraced w/ labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns |
| What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself? | -Son of a wealthy family in Middle West (San Francisco)-Educated in Oxford-Collected riches all around Europe-Then went into war |
| What made Nick discover why Jordan thought Gatsby was lying? | He rushed the phrase “educated at Oxford.” |
| What “matter” does Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick? | Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he can be reunited with her. |
| What does Gatsby do when he is speeding in the valley of ashes? | He shows the police a white card. |
| Who is Wolfsheim? Where does Nick meet him? | He is an associate of Gatsby’s, a “mobster,” who fixed the World Series in 1919. Gatsby introduces Nick to him at lunch. |
| Describe Wolfsheim. | -Small, flat-nosed Jew-Large head-Two fine growths of hair luxuriated in either nostril-Tiny eyes |
| What was the old Metropole? | A restaurant where many people have died |
| What does Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby? | He is a gentleman of “good breeding,” not the type to go after anybody’s wife or anything. |
| How does Jordan describe Daisy? | -Eighteen-Most popular girl in Louisville-Dressed in white-Telephone rang all day |
| Who was the officer with Daisy? | Gatsby |
| What was one rumor about Daisy? | She packed her bag to go to New York to say good bye to a soldier going overseas. |
| How did Daisy behave when Gatsby went overseas? | She wouldn’t speak and wouldn’t play around with soldiers in town |
| What did Daisy do on her wedding day? Why? | She drank. She didn’t wanna marry Tom. |
| What did Tom and Daisy do when they returned from their honeymoon? | They settled in Chicago(?) |
| Why did Daisy seem so popular in Chicago? | She didn’t drink |
| When was the first time Daisy heard “Gatsby” in a few years? | When Jordan told Nick about him at Tom and Daisy’s house |
| After Daisy reacted to Jordan mentioning Gatsby, who did Jordan connect Gatsby with? | The officer in her white car |
| Why did Gatsby buy the mansion where it is? | So he could be just across the bay from Daisy |
| When did Gatsby tell Jordan all this? | At the last party |
The Great Gatsby Chapter 4
March 23, 2020