The Great Gatsby Ch. 4
Becca Klaumenzer and Dylan Bortz
Rumors surround Jay Gatsby
• “He’s a bootlegger”
• “He killed a man who found out … he was the
nephew of Von Hindenburg and second cousin
to the devil.”
Attendants of Gatsby’s wild parties
• Some of the awkward attendants were
– The Leeches
– James B. (“rot-gut””) Ferret
– Klipspringer “the boarder”
– The Quinns- a divorced couple
– Henry L. Palmetto- jumped in front of the subway
– Benny McClenahan- a 1922 womanizer-each
woman’s last name was that of a FLOWER
– The “’ Stonewall Jackson’ Abrams of Georgia”
Gatsby attendants (cont.)
• Doctor Webster Civet-drowned in Maine
• Willie Voltaire
• A clan named Blackbuck-sit in corners and
turn up their noses like goats
• Edgar Beaver-wordplay
• Ripley Snells-his story
• The hammerheads
• Beluga and his daughters
GA (cont.)
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Newton Orchid-filmmaker
The Catlips
Ernest Lilly
George Duckweed
Francis Bull
Gatsby’s life story
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He swears he will tell the truth- this is a lie
Son of a wealthy family in the Midwest
Went to Oxford-snooty school in England
He states that he lived in San Francisco
He lived all over the world like a king
Gatsby the Masochist
• Gatsby tells Nick that when he was in the war
he accepted the position of first lieutenant
• He attempted to die numerous times
• His story
• His medal is inscribed to Major Jay Gatsby the
Latin translates to being from “Nicolas the
king”
• Nick believes him.
Meyer Wolfsheim is met
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“Small flat-nosed Jew” with a moustache
Dark eyes
Easily distracted
Wolfsheim’s history of Jay- identical to Jay’s
auto biography
• His cufflinks have human molars on them
• He is fifty
• Wolfsheim fixed the 1919 World Series
Why did she marry Tom at all?
• She wanted more than a promise of love
• She felt alone in a crowd
• She could have married him because he was
rich
• Or because he showered her with expensive
things
Love Story-Call Me Maybe
• Daisy was eighteen when she met Gatsby
• 1917, October
• She tries to run to New York to see a boy (we
assume it is Gatsby) off to the War
• Meets Tom
• Married him against her own better judgment
(she was drunk)
Daisy’s wedding
• She was beautiful as a June night in her flowered
dress
• Drunk as a skunk
• She has a bottle of white wine in one hand and a
letter in the other
• Says Jordan can return the pearls to Tom that she
has changed her mind she’s not going through
with it
• The maid and Jordan give her a cold bath and she
goes through with the marriage anyway
Tom’s list
• Daisy seemed to be crazy about Tom
• In Santa Barbara Tom wrecked his car
• The woman that was with him was a chamber
maid at the hotel (first sign of his disloyalty)
• The next April their daughter was born
• Maybe Daisy didn’t marry Tom for love
Why does Gatsby live in West Egg?
• Nick assumes that this is a coincidence
• Gatsby bought the house directly across the
bay from Daisy
• He wants to meet Daisy at Nicks house
• Gatsby wants to see her again to know he
hasn’t been away from her that long