This quote is a thought that Nick is having after Gatsby potentially “clears up” the rumors on their car ride to lunch in the city, in chapter 4. Nick is describing his thought process and how he thinks there is a chance Gatsby could be a little sinister after and a bit of a liar. When Gatsby was telling Nick about his family life from “extreme wealth” and how they lived in the “Midwest” in “San francisco”. Nick starts to pick on Gatsby’s lies because the midwest is hardly San Francisco so you can tell he starts to listen closer and that is when he picks up on the Oxford description. In this quote, he talks about how rushed Gatsby’s statement about Oxford was and how there was a sense of anxiety and Gatsby being bothered by Oxford. Nick starts
