The Great Gatsby: The Question Of Nick Carraway's Integrity
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In pursuing relationships, we come to know people only step by step.
Unfortunately, as our knowledge of others' deepens, we often move from
enchantment to disenchantment. Initially we overlook flaws or wish them away;
only later do we realize peril of this course. In the novel "The Great Gatsby"
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.... gossipy chatter about Tom's extra-
marital affair, and is instead beguiled by her dry witticisms and her apparent
simple sunniness: "Time for this good girl to go to bed," she says. When Daisy
begins her matchmaking of Nick and Jordan, we sense that she is only leading
where Nick's interest is already taking him.
It is Jordan, then, who makes Nick feel comfortable at Gatsby's party,
as we sense what Nick senses: they're becoming a romantic couple. As they drive
home a summer house-party, Ni ....
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