Chapter+4

=__Chapter 4__= =__ Summary: __= =Nick Carraway decides to compile a list of the visitors who come to Gatsby's parties. Then,all of a sudden, Gatsby pulls up in his car one day in front of Nick's house and asks Nick to go have lunch with him. While in the car, Gatsby divulges into his past in order to clear up some of the rumors that Nick had heard. Apparently, Gatsby's parents were wealthy, lived in the midwest, and are now dead. He was educated at Oxford after serving in the war. Gatsby clears up some of the rumors, because he tells Nick that he has a pretty big request of him. At lunch, Nick meets the businessman, Mr. Wolfsheim. Later on in the chapter, Jordan Baker asks Nick to invite Daisy over to his house. Gatsby knew Daisy a long time ago and fell in love with her until they almost got married. Gatsby is still in love with her and wants to reconcile with her.= = = =__ Colors Revealed: __= = "Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say, turned cotton-white one winter afternoon for no good reason at all." - According to = =Color Wheel Pro, "white is associated with light, innocence, goodness, and purity. With that fact in mind, it seems as if Beaver is depicted as a good person that does not have any guilt, or, as Fitzgerald puts it, "no good reason at all," for his hair to turn white.= = = =__ Unkown Words: __= =somnambulatory﻿- "sleep walking"= =amour- "a usually illicit love affair"=

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=__ Historical References: __= = = = "In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far foward that there was a half mile gap on eitther side of us where the infantry couldn't advance." - The Argonne Forest was a long strip of land in Northeastern France. It was used for offensives during World War I. Multiple soldiers won medals at this location. =



= __Common Themes:__ = = One of themes exposed in this chapter is the immortality of love. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy a very long time ago and now stalks her in a somewhat discrete manor. La ter on in the novel, readers realize that both of them still love each other, proving the everlasting effects that take hold of two people when they are in love.=

= __Marxist Theories:__ = = One example of Marxist ideas is when Nick discusses how Mr. Wolfsheim "fixed the World Series." This business dealing in which readers are told that the "authorities cannot get him," shows how the rich are not held as strictly to the laws, and just get richer, while the poor just have to deal. = = = = __Feminist Theories:__ = = Through Feminist thoughts, readers might notice how Daisy seemed to be the person who caused the wedding to be cancelled. This shift of blame to the female end of the spectrum helps so show some possible oppression. =

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