Chapter 4: Describe Gatsby's car- why do you think his car is described so clearly?

Gatsby's car is as flashy as his mansion..... as flashy as the man himself. It is bright, loud, and expensive..... another object that makes a statement.... speaks to success.

At nine o’clock, one morning late in July, Gatsby’s gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn.

I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.