Gatsby claims he was "educated at Oxford", "hurr[ying] the phrase" (pg65) "or swoll[ing] it, or chok[ing] on it" (pg. 65) as if he was telling the untruth. Causing his "whole statement [to fall] to pieces" (pg. 65). Gatsby claims he knew Nick from "the Third Division during the war" (pg. 47). Nick was in the "ninth machine gun battalion" (pg. 47), Gatsby was "in the seventh infantry until June 1918. There were 10–15K case soldiers in each division, Nicks division having 3,772 soldiers and Gatsby's with 707 soldiers.
In chapter three Gatsby gives a hand written invitation to Nick for his