What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?

Question

2. What accomplishments of Meyer Wolfshiem’s does Gatsby describe to Nick? How does Nick react?
3. According to Jordan, what did Daisy do on her wedding way? Why?
4. Why does Gatsby want to have tea with Daisy in Nick’s house? Why doesn’t Gatsby ask Nick for this favor himself?
5. What does Tom do when he and Daisy return from their honeymoon?
6. Aside from the improbability of his story, what other evidence is there that Gatsby is lying when he tells Nick about his background?
7. What does Gatsby’s friendship with Meyer Wolfshiem imply about his own background?
8. How does Daisy behave after Gatsby goes overseas? What does her behavior show about her feelings for Gatsby?
9. After Jordan tells Nick the story of Gatsby and Daisy, Nick says that Gatsby “came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.” How does the metaphor of birth explain what Gatsby’s behavior had meant to Nick previously?

Answer 1

Answer:
1. Gatsby is the son of some wealthy people in the middle west. Brought up in America but educated at Oxford (family tradition).
2. A gambler; "fixed" the World Series in 1919.
3. Daisy got drunk and cried when she received a letter. The letter is from Gatsby and she does not want to cancel the wedding.
4. He wants to reunite with Daisy and he wanted Daisy to come alone so he thought Nick's house would be better because he knows Daisy will come if Nick asks her.
5. He crashed into a wagon on the Ventura Road and a girl was with him, who was not Daisy.
6. The way Gatsby acts about it when it is brought up.
7. Gatsby's connection to Wolfsheim implies that Gatsby is making his fortune illegally
8. At first she dates only men who have no chance of getting into the army. Then in February she gets engaged to one man and in June marries another. This behavior shows emotional desperation and implies that she might really be in love with Gatsby.
9. That he was always born as a good man.