Connections

The latter part of chapter four of The Great Gastby is where I made a great deal of my connections. As Fitzgerald varies between narrators for a brief portion of the chapter, Jordan Baker is able to tell some of her story and how it relates to Gatsby. I was a little bit confused at first because the narrators swtiched. In Jordan's narrative portion of the novel, I was able to find out that she knew Daisy when they were younger! Daisy was quite the catch when she was a young woman! "She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rand in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the pribilee of monoplizing her that night" (Fitzgerald, 74). This indicates that Daisy had many suitors that just wanted ot be with her even if it was just for a night. It was during this part of Daisy's life that she met Jay Gatsby. He was one of the officers and from the moment he laid eyes on Daisy, he was madly in love with her. However, they have not seen each other in five years. Earlier in the book when Gatsby was brought up in conversation between Daisy and Nick, she acted flustered by asking, "what Gastby?" I didn't realize it at the time, but it was because Daisy and Gastby had history years ago. I think that Gatsby is going to try to use Nick to get to Daisy somehow. I am really excited to find out what happens next!