The Great Gatsby | Chapter 4 Summary and Analysis

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Meyer Wolfsheim: a business connection of Gatsby’s

Summary
Another party takes place at Gatsby’s mansion, this time on a Sunday morning. The narrator crowds an artist’s canvas with his description of the guests, every possible type included, and thus creates vignettes of the time period. The chapter begins with a lengthy description of the guests, and it concludes, much as a periodic sentence does, with the summary: “All these people came to Gatsby’s house in the summer.” Nick records their names on a...


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