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CH 4: Is Gatsby Lying?
DIRECTIONS: In chapter four, Gatsby informs Nick, “Well, I’m going to tell you something about my life…I don’t want you to get the wrong idea of me
from all these stories you hear.” Gatsby then begins to tell Nick details of his past. Complete the chart below, identifying the parts of Gatsby’s life he tells
Nick, why it may or not be believable, Gatsby’s possible motivation for sharing the information, and Nick’s reaction.
Point about his life
“I was promoted to be a
major, and every Allied
government gave me a
decoration…”(66).
Reason it’s believable?
Reason it’s not believable?
because its more
reasonable for him to had
decorations because he
was in war and had seen
nick
Gatsby’s motivation for
giving the information
since the both served in
to my astonishment the
the war gatsby wanted to thing had an authentic
tell more about his experit look
in the army and also
prove it
because gatsby said i’m
because he has a mansion
from san francisco but san and he is wealthy and to
francisco is not in the
explain where is he from
middle west and he is
most likely lying.
“I am the son of some
wealthy people in the
Middle West – all dead
now” (65).
“I’m collecting jewels,
chiefly rubies, hunting big
game, painting a little,
things for myself only, and
trying to figure out
something sad that
happened to me long ago”
(65-66).
it may be connected to
why he is always not
talking in parties and
standing somewhere
alone and is lonely
“I was brought up in
America but educated at
he is maybe telling the
truth because he had a
Nick’s reaction to what
Gatsby says
nick didnt recognize the
contradiction between the
words and said”i see”
that he doesn’t have a
good past and sometimes
sad happened to him
he managed to restrain
his laughter
because he said that most
of his family studied there
and it is a tradition to go
he wondered if there
Maybe something bad
happened to him
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Wasn’t something a Little
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Oxford” (65).
“Capitals of Europe –
Paris, Venice, Rome” (65).
picture of him at oxford
there
not believable because he he wanted to said i visited
mistakenly said venice is a and once lived in some of
capital which it isn’t and
the big capitals of Europe
rome is the capital of italy
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sinister about him
his reaction was to
restrain his laughter