In chapter 4 of Gatsby how is language used to set the scene and influence interpretation?

At the beginning of Chapter 4 of The Great
Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses language usually reserved for weddings and comedies
to set a festive, jubilant tone.  Fitzgerald wants us to feel the romanticism and
anticipation in the air as Gatsby is about to receive Daisy at Nick's home in Chapter 5.
 His use of language is a clear set-up by Fitzgerald to build up our hopes, only to let
us down in the later chapters.

Fitzgerald uses the
wonderful metaphor "...the world and its mistress" to connote the spring-like fertility
in the air.  Notice too it is "Sunday" and there are "church bells" ringing--both part
of a marriage ceremony.

As contrast, the rumors about
Gatsby fly about: "He's a bootlegger" and "he killed a man" further add to the mystery.
 It seems the wedding imagery would appeal to female readers and the gangster imagery
would appeal to males of the time.

Fitzgerald uses a
catalogue method, speaking of guests who descend upon Gatsby's West Egg grounds: "From
East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named Bunsen, whom I
knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last summer up in Maine. And the
Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan named Blackbuck."  This fits the
wedding motif and stresses the themes of mobility and
wealth.

Fitzgerald also uses much time imagery, "nine
o'clock," to reveal his theme of displaced time.  He uses car imagery "Gatsby’s gorgeous
car" to foreshadow the death by car at the end.

And then
there's Gatsby's use of "old sport."  He uses it in both a new (flirty) and old
(good-ole-boy) way.  Indeed, life seems to be a game to Gatsby, full of fast cars and
women.  He is a new breed of American, focused almost entirely on
recreation.

There there are the lies.  He's from the
Midwest?  San Francisco?  They are all prefaced by "I’ll tell you God’s truth"--which is
always a set-up for a lie.  In all, Gatsby is confirming his reputation as a Byronic
Hero--he of mysterious origins and dangerous
affiliations.

All told, there is sense of movement and
anticipation in Fitzgerald's prose.  It moves along quickly.  The reader is very much
like Nick, moving fast in Gatsby's car and being lied to along the way.  The irony is,
of course, is that neither Nick or we mind too much.