Sean O'Donnell--Chapter 3 Pages 39-59

Sean O'Donnell--Chapter 3 Pages 39-59


Throughout the summer, Gatsby constantly threw party after party at his house. Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's party's via one of Gatsby's chaffers. At the party, he finds himself alone and unable to find Gatsby. He runs into Jordan, who he ends up spending the rest of the evening with. They end up meeting Gatsby and Nick discovers that he fought with Gatsby in the war. Jordan and Gatsby talk privately for a long time, and she meets up with Nick again right as the party is ending. Gatsby invites Nick to ride in his hydroplane with him the next morning. After viewing a traffic accident outside the house, he goes home. Nick spend the majority of the summer working. He and Jordan began dating, and he finds he is greatly attracted to her, even though she is dishonest.


Jordan Baker


"Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage..." (Fitzgerald 58).


Jordan, although a strong and determined woman, is not honest. She is very beautiful and has gained great fame for herself through golf. She likes to be in control, and have attention centered around her. She knows a lot about others and is willing to share the latest gossip. Jordan does not like feeling powerless.


Nick is attracted to Jordan throughout the beginning of the novel. She is the definition of the 'new woman' in America. She has gained fame for herself through golf and has become a very popular woman. She is the opposite of Myrtle and Daisy. Because she is dishonest, and so close to Nick, she could be a source of heartbreak later in the novel.


"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" (Fitzgerald 59). This quote concluded chapater 3. This simple quote illustrates how Nick does not trust many of the people who surround him because he believes they are all dishonest. Nick, unlike many of us, clearly shows himself to be an honest person. The reader is left to question their own honesty and the honesty of the important people in their own lives.