Chapter 4

Question 1

The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned character leaking sawdust at every pore

Answer 1

-Here Gatsby is trying to persuade Nick of his past during the car ride.
-However it comes off as a poor imitation of a depiction of a storybook.
-This imitation of an old money lifestyle is not reality, Gatsby is unaware of that.

Question 2

She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster and all day long the telephone rang in her house

Answer 2

-Description of Daisy when she was young from Jordan’s pov.
-Repetition on white reinforces the Anglo Saxon heritage and the racial aspect of American society
-the telephone connotes wealth and modernity