Chapter 4 (p. 61-80)

Summary:
At the very beginning of the story, Nick lists all of the people who went to Gatsby's house that summer and all of them are very rich and well-known people. Also, Nick goes to lunch with Gatsby and Gatsby tells him that he is going to be asking him a large favor very soon. Gatsby tells Nick more about his life, what happened to his parents, that he went to Oxford and that he was in WWI. After his lunch with Gatsby, Nick goes out with Jordan Baker and she tells him that Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan and that they had a relationship before he went to the war but when he got home from the war, she had already married Tom. She then reveals that the favor Gatsby wants is for Nick to invite Daisy over for tea one day.

Character:
Jay Gatsby:
"He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly America- that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand." (FITZGERALD 64)
- Gatsby has a ridiculous amount of money, yet no one really knows where it came from or what he does for a living.
- He's very mysterious, no one knows any concrete details about his life, he's very sly and doesn't reveal much information about himself.

-Gatsby is the most interesting character we've me throughout this whole book. We still don't know much about him, however with every chapter we learn a little bit more about who he really is. When it is revealed that Gatsby is in love with Daisy, many pieces of the story fit together. For example, in the very first chapter, Nick sees Gatsby standing at the end of his dock reaching towards a green light at the end of a dock at East Egg. It now makes sense that he was reaching for Daisy, since that is where she lives. Gatsby will continue to be an important character because of his relationship with Daisy and how much he wants to see her again.

Meaningful Quote:
"On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn." (FITZGERALD 61)
- This quote stood out to me because it was again talking about Gatsby's house and the many people he constantly entertained. "The world and its mistress" is similar to saying "everyone and his brother" because it is just giving a visual on how many people were constantly at his house.