journal entry/ notes for Chapter 4

Summary: It is a sunday and this chapter starts off with Nick telling use about a times table he has made that is a list of people who have been attending Gatsby's parties. Then he tells use the story of one july morning when Gatsby came over to Nick's house and took him out to lunch, in the car ride, gatsby tells nick a little about himself. Where he went to school, and how he got to be so rich. Gatsby even has sovenirs to prove his tales. Nick and Gatsby eat lunch with a man named Mr. Meyer Wolfsheim. At lunch Mr. Wolfsheim and Gatsby talk all of their memories about eating at the Metropole. We learn the Mr. Wolfsheim is a gambler who fixed the world series. After Mr. Wolfsheim left, Nick introduced Gatsby to Tom, Daisy's husband, but Gatsby, not wanting to know Tom, Quickly disappeared. Then Nick goes into explaining his lunch date with Jordan. She tells Nick the story she knows about Gatsby and Daisy. Jordan tells Nick how gatsby bought his house because it was across from Daisy and how he hoped she would one day venture into one of his parties but she never did. Then she tells him that Gatsby wants Nick to have Daisy over for lunch, and to tell Gatsby so that he can come over and see Daisy. Nick agreed and pulled Jordan closer to him, ending the chapter.
Times July 5th 1922,
Symbol: Time is important (timetable- July 5, 1922) records names of people who attended Gatsby
~ 1917/1918- Gatsby/Daisy, Tom/Daisy's Marriage
~ Gatsby- Medal WWI, Photo at oxford
~Fixed World Series, Murder of Rosenthal
Chapter 4 is all about time, and history. Gatsby wants to turn back time
reoccuring: bad drivers

Foreshadow: he explains the car because it is a foreshadowthat it will be crashed

Symbol: cars and careless drivers symbolize life; Nick's time-table, the green light that Gatsby holds his arms open to; $350,000 Necklace tom buys Daisy, Christmas card from the commissoner

Metaphor: people are wreckless

Motifs/ symbols- Gatsby's car (extremely bright yellow), Tom's accident (affair w/ chambermaid in Santa Barbara)

fib about Gatsby: killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

Gatsby's Story: went to Oxford, from the mid west (San Fransisco) born into a rich family and they all died so he got a lot of money. Lived in Europe doing this and that to forget something very sad that happened to him. (Daisy) foreshadow. fought in the war

Gatsby has things to back up his story:
Police was going to pull him over for speedingbut then he realizes Gatsby is friends with the comissioner. There is a business connection the Gatsby and the police because Gatsby is a boot legger

Foreshadow: "Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend's wife

Characters: Mr. Wolfsheim, Business connection to Gatsby, he is a gambiler who fixed the world series in 1919. He is wearing human Molars- for cuffs, has bad pronunciation odviously did not go to oxsford

Fixing the 1919 world series represents that the idea that the last faith tha american can go and enjoy is corrupted. Baseball is the American dream.

Allusion: fixing the world series, shooting of Rosy Rosenthal, Metropole, Muhlbach Hotel, Songs-"Sheik of Araby"; WWI, 1919 World series; Arnold Rothstein (actual gangster Mr. Wolfsheim is based off of)

Sehlbach Hotel: Irony Fitzgerald got married at this hotel

Gatsby is the hero but he is connected to some bad things

Nick introduces Gatsby to Tom. Gatsby disappears because he doesn't want to know Tom.