The Great Gatsby Chapter 4 Summary

In the beginning of chapter 4, Nick starts to go on and on about what happened at Gatsby’s party. For example, he names everyone that attends his party, what had happened to the people and also what they do for a living. This makes Nick look like he cares and pays attention to what everyone tells him. Then Gatsby decides to pick up Nick in his yellow car to take him out for lunch. On the way to lunch Gatsby decides to tell Nick about his past. For example, he tells him about how he got his education at Oxford and how his family is wealthy and they are from San Francisco. For some reason, Nick decides not to believe Gatsby. While being in the car, Gatsby talks to Nick about the war and then he shows him a medal that he got. On the medal, it says “Major Jay Gatsby.” After that, Gatsby also decides to show him a picture of him while he was at Oxford with all his friends. By the end of this Nick decides to believe him because of all the evidence that he has shown him …show more content…
Gatsby shows him a white card and the police officer lets him go and he says sorry for any bad things that he has caused or for even interrupting him. Apparently the white card shows corruption.
Once they get to their destination, Gatsby introduces him to Meyer Wolfshiem, his business men. Wolfshiem is a untrustable character. Apparently he was the one who arranged the world series in 1919. Wolfshiem tells Nick how Gatsby and him are associated with crimes and that is where they get all their money from. While Nick was looking around he spots Tom Buchanan. He was going to introduce Gatsby to him but next thing you know, he was gone and Nick didn’t know where he had