Chapter 4

• "He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand" Gatsby is nervous - relates to him "trembling" on the dock. Everything revolves around the master aim.
• "Rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length" "Green leather conservatory" The car is almost alien. Green interior with a cream coated outside. Also, described using "monstrous" hints at the car's capability of being violent which it so happens to be towards Myrtle soon hereafter.
• "I'll tell you Gods truth" Turns out to be a false story of his life. Reinforces how Gatsby can be viewed as a god of hedonism - a disciple of Mammon.
• "I lived as a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe - Paris, Venice, Rome - collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little" - Reiterates this notion once again that Gatsby is deployed as a god sent from Mammon - to personify hedonism and spread it's influence all over West Egg.
• "Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man's eyes... "Right you are" agreed the policeman, tipping his cap"

  • First hint at Gatsby's shady business.
• "A limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry" - Displays Nick's disillusionment at immigration. He doesn't quite understand the nature of how some minorities can be present in this modern day New York.
• "A small, flat nosed jew raised his head" Nick's first impression of Meyer is racially motivated. As readers we can infer that Fitzgerald is buying into the stereotype that jews are rich and businessmen.
• "The old metropoole... filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends now gone forever" - Hints at Meyer's shadiness
• "I understand you are looking for a business gonnegtion" - Meyer and Gatsby associated with some business that Nick does not want to be part of.
• "Finest specimen's of human molar's" Meyer is also associated with the gods of Mammon - ritualising human life for business and success.
• "He would never so much as look at a friend's wife" - In accurate statement - presents Meyer as foolish and not grounded.
• "As he shook hands and turned away his tragic nose was trembling" Meyer knows what Nick is getting into with Gatsby. He essentially predicts the turmultuous affair of events soon to unfold.
• "By far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster" - White - purity. She has always been associated with trying to achieve the traditionally pure, white, and innocent image of the American girl.
• "She was sitting in it with a lieutenant i had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until i was five feet away" - Gatsby's past with Daisy. Pure, and undisturbed.
• "In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Muhlbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string o pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars" - Daisy was easily entertained by Tom's money. 'Her voice is full of money"
• Gatsby wrote to Daisy the day before the wedding. She broke down and wanted to return the pearls to Tom and give up the wedding.
• "He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from he womb of his purposeless splendour" - The stars have aligned, Nick has connected the dots. All for what Gatsby is worth, revolves Daisy at the pivot.
• "Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, i had no girl whose disembodied face floated in the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so i drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth smiled, and so i drew her up again closer, this time to my face" - Nick wants the same pivot of a women to revolve his life like it does for Tom and Gatsby. He is desperately trying to fit in here.