In this chapter, Nick also discovers Daisy and Gatsby’s love life. The second contrast that is notable between the two chapters is the development of Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker's relationship blossom. In chapter 3, they are just friends but in the other chapter, they become to develop a stronger feeling for one another. They both talked in a friendship tone throughout the party and made plans to meet up. Jordan said, “She yawned gracefully in my face: ‘Please come and see me …
Initially, Jordan seems to have a ‘soft spot’ for Nick and his carefulness. When the two leave Gatsby’s party after getting to know each other better, Jordan makes it clear that she is interested in Nick. As Nick comments on carelessness, Jordan remarks, “‘I hate careless people. That’s why I like you’”, implying that Nick’s awareness is attractive to Jordan (58). After reading this quote, one would believe that Jordan is encouraging this relationship with Nick and that she likes him for his personality.
In this passage, Jordan has finished telling Gatsby and Daisy’s story to Nick. Nick narrates, “When Jordan Baker had finished telling all this we had left the Plaza for half an hour and were driving in a victoria through Central Park. The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the clear voices of girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight: ‘I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me.
Jordan adds to the messiness of Nick throughout the book, from when they first met, to their last conversation. Jordan and Nick have a small connection, but it's not a desired relationship. It feels almost as if Gatsby and others are under “peer pressure” in their relationship. An example of Jordan adding to the messiness of Nick as a character is chapter 3 where Jordan throws her cigarette onto Nick's desk; this, displays that Jordan's actions can surprise Nick or alter something that Nick is working on. Throughout the book, Jordan's actions tend to fluster Nick, and his friends tend to put him in tricky situations.
Nick is chasing after Jordan and Gatsby, however. He thinks he is interested in Jordan, and wants to get to know her better, until he finds out that she is a liar and he cannot trust her. Nick is also looking into Gatsby’s life because he is interested about his
In the book The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3, it states “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruitier in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulp less halves” I mean I don’t really think this count but I would say that this is pretty wasteful I don’t think this would count though. Also I don’t believe that Fitzgerald portray himself in Tocqueville’s portray. I can’t really find any evidence in chapter 3 or 4. But I would say that in chapter 1 Miss.
Jordan liked Nick for his caution and honesty, but his interest in her represents the reality that he wants to advance in social class. He’d “been writing letters once a week and signing them: ‘Love, Nick,’ and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. Nevertheless, there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free,” and his arrangement by Daisy to Jordan marked the reality of him trying to gain notoriety; his advancement took priority over the other woman as he dismisses her over something as trivial as sweat to get a chance to move up in
Not only does he try to impress Daisy with an interesting backstory, he even tries to impress her with fanatical acts of love. An example of this is when Jordan explains why it is not a coincidence Nick and Gatsby met. Gatsby attempts to reach Daisy through Nick when Jordan states, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be
Throughout the book of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character, Jordan Baker shows up in many different ways. When we first meet Jordan she is only known as the character Nick is attracted to. Throughout the book, we get to see that she has many connections with the main characters. Her important relationships with Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy changes the traits we see from Jordan. Jordan’s relationship with Daisy is the first one to form.
After Gatsby finishes talking with Jordan she asks Nick to come see her where she reviles the next part of his plan. Gatsby used Jordan to ask Nick if he would invite Daisy over to his house as she is closer to Nick and is afraid that if he asks himself he “might be offended.” (Fitzgerald.77) When asked why he did not just ask her she states, “he wants her to see his house…and your house is right next door” (Fitzgerald.77). Gatsby is able to successfully manipulate Nick, simply using him as a bridge to bring Daisy unknowingly to him.
However, as time goes on, Nick discovers that Jordan hides behind a mask of deceit, and is not really who she says she is. “She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world…” (64). Jordan also happens to be dishonest, that is, cheat, with her career, as well. Her dishonesty doesn’t bring about her downfall, but it does eventually cause Nick to unceremoniously dump her before leaving the tainted streets of New York for
This passage is taken from the first chapter of the classic novel The Great Gatsby. During this part of the novel Daisy Buchanan is talking to Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway about when her daughter was being born. She discovers that her baby is a girl and states that she “hope(s) she’ll be a fool” because “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world.” This quote shows how Daisy perceives what it is like to be a girl during the 20s. Although this quote does not relate directly to the themes presented within the novel, it is significant because it gives insight for the reader towards who Daisy is as a character.
Nick acknowledges her carelessness and warns Jordan, “Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn’t to drive at all”(p58). To this, Jordan replies, “It takes two to make an accident”(p58). Jordan does not take on the blame for almost hitting a man with her car, she simply makes a quip and changes the subject. She does not truly care for the safety of anyone else. Though Jordan is careless, Nick states she was “too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age”, unlike Daisy (p135).
For example, Jordan is both friends with Daisy and Nick. So he can ask Jordan for favours when he is in need of anything. It also shows that Jordan likes to gain access to people lives doing so. Daisy is proclaimed as a very beautiful woman as in the words on Mr. Gatsby. Throughout the book we also find out that Daisy is also Nick’s cousin.
In the last passage of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the reader gains insight into Gatsby’s life through the reflections of Nick Carraway. These reflections provide a summary of Gatsby’s life and also parallel the main themes in the novel. Through Fitzgerald’s use of diction and descriptions, he criticizes the American dream for transformation of new world America from an untainted frontier to a corrupted industrialized society. In the novel, Fitzgerald never mentions the phase “American Dream,” however the idea is significant to the story.
