Great Gatsby Ch 4

1.       Chapter 4

Pages 61-80

2.       Nick starts the chapter by describing all of the people who attended Gatsby’s parties.  Gatsby then invites Nick to lunch and Nick learns a lot about Gatsby’s life.  He learned that Gatsby did in fact go to Oxford and that he grew up with money and received it after his family died in California.  Gatsby gets pulled over on their way to New York but he gets away with it because he had helped that police officer out with something before and they are happily on their way.  When they arrive, Nick meets Mr. Wolfsheim and they become acquainted with one another until Nick finds out that he is a notorious gambler and was involved with the 1919 World Series scheme but got away with it because he is said to be a very clever man. 

3.       a) Meyer Wolfsheim

b) “No, he’s a gambler. He’s the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.” (73)

c) Mr. Wolfsheim is a notorious gambler and he is a very sneaky and clever man, I don’t think that he can be trusted because of his past actions.  Nick is somewhat scared of this man because he views him as a criminal who should be in jail for fixing the World Series and doing it just to make money.  He is a con artist.

d) So far he has played as another character but I don’t think he will have an extremely significant role in the novel.  We will probably see him later on the same way he met him with Gatsby, however I don’t think he will be a tremendously important character. 

4.       “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”

This quote is very important to the novel because it confirms that Gatsby loves Daisy and that he is pursuing her to fall for him.  It shows that Gatsby will do anything to win her love and this will affect the whole novel because now we are assured that Gatsby loves Daisy.  This may come into conflict with Tom, Nick, Jordan and Daisy throughout the story.