The Great Gatsby
By F. Scotts Fritzgerald
Chapter 4
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The rumors about Gatsby continue.
“He’s a bootlegger.” One time he killed a man who found out that he was a nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.”
Nick wrote down a list of the many people that came to Gatsby’s house in the summer. He listed separated the people from East Egg and West Egg who attended Gatsby’s parties There was a man named Klipspringer who as there so often and so long he became known as, “the boarder”
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One day in July at nine o’ clock in morning, Gatsby drove his car over to Nick’s house. Gatsby invited Nick to lunch. Gatsby’s car was a cream color with bright nickel trimming. While driving to lunch in the city, Gatby tells Nick about his life.
Gatsby tells Nick that he was the son of wealthy people in the Middle West but they are all dead and “came into a great deal of money He also told Nick that he was born in America and educated at Oxford, because all of his ancestors have been educated there(Oxford) for many years. When Nick asked him from what part of the Middle West was he born, he said San Francisco. He also told Nick that he traveled to Paris, Venice and Rome.
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Gatsby also told Nick that he was a war hero. Nick found it hard to believe him. Gatsby then showed Nick a Metal of honor that he received from the battle at Montenegro . The metal read : Major Jay Gatsby; For Valour Extraordinary. He also showed Nick a picture of himself with a group of his classmates at Oxford.
Gatsby tells Nick that he has a favor to ask of him. He says that Jordan Baker will ask the favor for him when she meets Nick for Tea. Nick was annoyed by Gatby’s request.
As they are driving to New York, they are pulled over by the police. Gatsby pulls out a card and shows it to the police man.
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Gatsby took Nick to a speakeasy where they met Meyer Wolfsheim; an acquaintance of Gatsby. Gatsby tells Nick that Wolfsheim is a gambler who had the Worlds Series fixed in 1919. Gatsby and Nick also run into Tom at the Speakeasy. Nick introduces Gatsby and Tom. Then Gatsby disappears.
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At Tea, Jordan describes and incident which happened in October 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky.
She said that one day while walking home, she saw Daisy and a young army officer in the car. Daisy calls her over to the car. She is two years younger than Daisy and is flattered that Daisy wanted to speak to her. Jordan always admired Daisy. Jordan did not know until the party that Gatsby was the young officer in the car.
There were wild rumors about Daisy. Her mother found her packing her bag to meet an officer in New York to say good-by to officer before he went overseas. Her mother prevented her from going. Daisy stopped speaking to her family for several weeks.
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In the spring she met and became engaged to Tom Buchanan. For a wedding present, Tom gave Daisy a string of pearls worth three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The day before the wedding, Daisy’s family hosted a bridal dinner. When Jordan(a bridesmaid) went up to Daisy’s room, she found Daisy drunk. Daisy had a letter in one hand and a bottle of liquor in the other. She had thrown the pearls that Tom had given her in the garbage.
“Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘em Daisy’s change her mine(mind), Say, ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine(mind).
Daisy began to cry . Jordan and the maid put Daisy in a cold bath. The letter got wet. Daisy squeezed it into a ball and left it in the soap dish.
Five o’clock the next day, Daisy married Buchanan with the pearls around her neck. They went on a three-week honeymoon to the South Seas.
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Jordan saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back to the states. They seemed to be in love. A week after Jordan left Santa Barbara. Tom got into a car accident which made the newspapers. The girl who was with Tom also made the papers because her arm was broken. The girl was a chamber maid at the Santa Barbara Hotel. The next April, Daisy had her daughter.
Daisy had not heard Gatsby’s name in years; not until Jordan has mention it at dinner.(Chapter 1) That night after the dinner at Buchanan Mansion(Chapter 1), Daisy woke up Jordan and asked her about the name Gatsby that she had mentioned at dinner.
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Nick thought that is was all such a strange coincidence . Daisy explained that it wasn’t a coincidence at all. Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be across the bay.
Gatsby wanted to know if Nick would invite Daisy to Tea and let him come over. Nick wanted to know why he didn’t ask Jordan to invite Daisy over. Jordan explained that Gatsby wanted Daisy to see his house and Nick’s house is next door.
“Does she want to see Gatsby?” Said Nick
“She’s not to know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea.” said Daisy
Nick’s thoughts at the end of the chapter
“…..Unlike Gastby and Tom, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me(Jordan) tightening my arms. Her wan ,scornful mouth smiled, and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.