Love on Long Island

Well it's about time Nick Carraway finally meets this Gatsby fellow! Thus far in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald has been keeping things interesting by only diclosing parts of Gatsby's character throughout the novel. Though he is becoming more and more known, he still remains somewhat mysterious to the reader. As the novel continues, Nick Carraway has a full conversation with a man only realzing halfway through the conversation that this man is actually Gatsby! Fitzgerald uses excellent symbolism here in showing that Gatsby has gone through perhaps a great deal of his life as unnoticed or underappreciated. However, based off of Nick's description of Gatsby's characteristics and mannerisms, the reader can tell that he is a genuine person. Nick describes Gatsby's smile in the following exerpt: "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life" (Fitzgerald, 48). As Gatsby's party continues, Nick Carraway gets to know a girl named Jordan Baker. The two of them really seem to have a connection in the book. I think that it may lead to something later on in the novel. I feel as though they both appreciate Gatsby for his genuity and that is how they truly come to realize the chemistry between them. Chapter five ends with Jordan letting Nick know that she wishes to keep in touch with him. I sense that there could be some love in the air!