Chapter 4

1. Picture -->


2. Picture Explanation
This picture show how were are now in this chapter seeing that there are two sides of Gatsby; the side he wants people to believe, and the side people talk about. It shows how we will soon see the real Gatsby, and how what people say isn't always completely wrong.

3. Quotes
" 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil' (pg.65)"
This quote shows how in the point of the story were in right now Gatsby is still very mysterious and it also show how people will gossip behind your back and say things that aren't true yet still be your friend.


"Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.(pg.67)"
This quote lays the over theme for the next couple of chapters about the party's at Gatsby's. It shows how that everyone that attends the party is just like the people that attended the last one and the one before that. It shows how everyone in that crowd is just a faceless rich person to Nick.

"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired'. ( pg. 81)"
This quote shows the main theme of most of the book; that every one in there society is the same. In this quote Nick is saying that everyone he knows can be put into one of these categories. At this part in the book Nick is beginning to see that nothing is as glamorous as it seems, and nothing really is what it seems.

"He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxford', or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before. And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all."
This shows how Gatsby's mysteriousness is almost faltering, and the people who doubt his stories may be right in doing so. It is the beginning of the unveiling of the real Gatsby.

4.Theme and Significance
In chapter four nick goes into the city with Gatsby. On the ride there he tells Nick all about his past and all of his accomplishments. and although Gatsby is trying to clear the record, all he does is make Nick more apprehensive about his past. When they get to lunch and Wolfshiem, because he is a shady character is there that also gives Nick the impression the the way Gatsby got all his money is less then unsavory. After lunch he runs into Jordan Baker who confirms Nicks belief that Wolfshiem is shady and that Gatsby is doing business with him that is illegal. The theme of this chapter is mysteriousness. It also has a lot of confusion. It show how it is hard to see the line between real and unreal. Between what people think and what u want them to think.