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Chapter Four

Opening page (61) significance of diction Nick's recounting of Gatsby's guests “A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as 'the boarder'” (62—63). Chapter Four. Gatsby & his car (themes). pg. 64. “I'll tell you God's truth” (65).

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Chapter Four

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  1. Opening page (61) significance of diction Nick's recounting of Gatsby's guests “A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as 'the boarder'” (62—63) Chapter Four

  2. Gatsby & his car (themes) • pg. 64

  3. “I'll tell you God's truth” (65) • “He looked at me sideways—and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying. He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxford,' or swallowed, 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” (65). • “For a moment I suspect that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise” (65). • “Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart” (67).

  4. Making the impossible real – The Magic of Gatsby • p. 68-69 • “With fenders spread like wings we scattered light through half Astoria....” • “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world” • “'Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge...; anything at all ….' Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder.”

  5. Wolfsheim • “'I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion.' The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling” (71). • “I think that, except for my presence he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table” (71). • “He's an Oggsford man” (71). • “Finest specimens of human molars” (72). • “he's a gambler. ...He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919” (73).

  6. Jordan & Daisy's “white girlhood” • “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since” (75). • “...she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks. After that she didn't play around with the soldiers anymore....” (75). • “By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever” (75).

  7. Daisy & Gatsby • 76-77 • “'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.' ...He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (78). • “He wants her to see his house....” (79). • Daisy's symbolism p. 80

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