Reading Journal (The Great Gatsby): Chapter 4

Section A:

• List of names: mostly animals, plants and/or humorous sounding- also morbid stories that accompany them
• The car's description "gorgeous" and it's role in the chapter 
• Racial language "American resourcefulness of movement", "Negroes", referring to Wolfsheim as a jew and making multiple references to his nose

Section B:

• Development of nick as narrator and a more spontaneous character "there are the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired"
• Nick also  starts to consider himself on of Crowd that attends Gatsby's parties
• Gatsby's false past is told to us-it is hinted that this is a lie through lines such as "he looked at me sideways"