The Great Gatsby CHAPTER FOUR

Date of Nick’s list of Gatsby’s guests (on pp. 62-3) July 5 … Significance? The day after Independence Day … This is what has become of America! (America’s “hangover”)

Gatsby’s Car (p. 64) huge, gaudy, “monstrous,” cream-colored

GATSBY’S VERSION OF HIS PAST Hints that Gatsby is lying? “He looked at me sideways” (65) “educated at Oxford” (65)(this statement is “hurried,” “swallowed,” “choked”) “What part of the middle-west?” (65) “San Francisco” (!) Artifacts: medal from Montenegro & photograph from Oxford …. Nick’s reaction? “To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look” (66) Gatsby turns himself into a stereotype, a “character” (European pleasure-seeker, war hero)

What is the “sad thing that happened” to Gatsby?? READ pp : Promise and Potential of NYC, America, the American Dream

MEYER WOLFSHIEM Jewish mobster with “tiny eyes” (nervously scanning the room) Suggests corruption, crime as source of Gatsby’s wealth (“business gonnegtion”) Wolfshiem believes Gatsby to be “a man of fine breeding” (72) Cufflinks made of human molars! READ p. 73: Wolfshiem as man who fixed the 1919 World Series (Chicago Black Sox scandal – Arnold Rothstein) xuKU66YDFE xuKU66YDFE

Eight Men Out (1988)

JORDAN’S NARRATIVE (DAISY AND GATSBY) “One October day in nineteen-seventeen …” Daisy Fay’s “white childhood” in Louisville Daisy in love with Gatsby, BUT agrees to marry Tom (75) … WHY?? (convenience, social/economic position) Daisy masks her emotions on her wedding day (76) (Echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre courtship) Daisy’s desperate faith in Tom shattered by his affair

GATSBY’S PURPOSE: IDEAL LOVE FOR DAISY p. 78: Gatsby’s motivation (“it wasn’t a coincidence at all”) p. 80: Difference between Tom/Gatsby and Nick (accepts people for who they are)

Quickwrite: Gatsby Characterization Based on what we’ve learned so far about Gatsby, do you think that Gatsby deserves the title of “Great”? Explain your answer using at least three reasons and one quote from the novel with page number.