Write a thematic statement for your assigned chapter (Chapter 4). Then, provide one quote to back up your thematic statement and explain Fitzgerald’s purpose in developing this theme.

Gatsby's life is largely based on illusion and perhaps even delusion:

Though he claims to descend from a prominent Midwestern family, when Nick asks him which Midwestern city he comes from, Gatsby hesitates, then says "San Francisco." He rattles off an absurdly long list of accomplishments: he claims to have studied at Oxford and lived in all of the capitals of Europe;.... ch 4