The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
So now I am starting to get the picture that Nick is not as much the cool, content bachelor that I once saw. Well before from some of his actions at other social events I thought him maybe not the must outgoing but now I see that he is a shy introvert who lives his best moments through his head. Nick talks about how he enjoys the bustling walk through downtown manhattan and how he romanticizes different scenarios involving himself and other lovely women who cross his path. Then it does make sense when right after he states, "At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others" (Fitzgerald 56). Still I may be jumping to conclusions because the relationship between Nick and Miss Jordan Baker appears to be steadily becoming more intimate. One thing peculiar about Nick's infatuation of Jordan is that it sprouts from a great curiosity of her true personality. As Carraway soon realizes, "She was incurably dishonest" (Fitzgerald 58). It makes some sense why Nick, a self-proclaimed honest man, would become so infatuated with a girl who is quite the opposite. Its as if such a difference is in a way exciting to Nick and this excitement would go along the lines as to fuel his hot obsession of her. However, when the fun and excitement has died down, I would suspect that these little traits of Jordan will not exude Nick to love her in a serious relationship. In fact I think this difference would easily destroy their courtship. So like all hot and exciting love affairs, I predict that this one will just as well burnout quickly.
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