"One October day in nineteen-seventeen - (said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel) - I was walking along from one place to another, half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns." - Jordan Baker, page 74.
Now this is when the novel really starts to get interesting. Jordan Baker uses a flashback to describe events that have a great impact on the characters' lives today and to explain the plan she and Gatsby would like Nick to help them with. Who would have thought that Daisy and Gatsby had a thing many years before? She remembers how devastated Daisy was on her wedding day when she received a letter from Gatsby. She was probably feeling like she was making a mistake and marrying the wrong man. Anyways, the purpose for Jordan telling this story is to try and convince Nick to invite both Daisy and Gatsby over at the same time so that they can see each other again after so many years apart. Personally, I do not think anything good will come of this. I predict that Daisy will start to have an affair with Gatsby. Sure Tom cheats on her but that does not make it okay for her to do the exact same thing and cheat on him. Hopefully an affair will not come from this whole situation. Daisy made the mistake of marrying Tom a long time ago and now should probably deal with the fact that she is with him instead of Gatsby. On the other hand, I think it is time for Gatsby to get over Daisy. He should find someone who chooses him from the beginning instead of someone who picks someone else and then wishes she had chosen Gatsby later after everything goes wrong.
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