Chapter 4 focuses on the mysterious Gatsby and his past from two different perspectives. The chapter starts by Gatsby coming to Nick’s door with his car offering him to have lunch with him. During this lunch he meets with another friend of Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim. After having lunch with them and hearing their stories of the past Nick starts to realize that Gatsby may not be what he thinks he is, due to his friends, especially Meyer Wolfsheim who is a gambler that the police can’t track because he’s too smart. Nick has a hard time understanding why Gatsby has such friends. As the lunch breaks out, Nick sees Tom, Daisy’s husband. As he starts talking to him he realizes that Gatsby is nowhere to be found. This I read it made me think that something might of happened between Tom and Gatsby that may have caused Gatsby to disappear.
After Gatsby disappears, the story changes its narrator for a couple of pages. Now the narrator of the story is Jordan Baker. She talks about her own past and also Daisy’s past together because they had lived in the same town in Louisville when they were younger. She tells Nick about a lieutenant that looked at Daisy, like every girl would have liked to be looked at. We than learn that the name of the lieutenant is Jay Gatsby, the neighbour of Nick. Nick finds this story very interesting and becomes amazed with the coincidence of close together they have ended up living. But he is struck with the truth that Jay Gatsby moved to West Egg knowing that Daisy would be here and because he wanted to be close to her. Coming from this point I also thought that he might be throwing his huge parties because he wants Daisy to walk in to one of them so they can run in to each other one more time.
Jordan Baker shows Nick another side of Jay Gatsby that he doesn’t and probably no one knows. Jordan shows the lover side of Gatsby to Nick also telling him what they talked about in private during the party. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby wanted him to invite Daisy and him to his house for tea like a coincidence. The chapter ends with yet another mystery of what Nick is going to do about Gatsby. Is he going to do a favour for Gatsby or just forget what Jordan told him about it?
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