In the summer of 1922, Nick moves to West Egg, New York, to sell bonds. He rents a house next door to Gatsby. Nick starts dating Jordan Baker and meets Tom's mistress.
What is Nick's relationship with Jordan in chapter 3?
He works each day in the city, has a brief relationship with a woman from New Jersey, and then begins to date Jordan Baker. Yet though he's attracted to Jordan, he doesn't like her because she's dishonest and even cheats at golf. Nick then says that he is one of the only honest people he's ever known.
Here we get a sense of what draws Jordan and Nick together—he's attracted to her carefree, entitled attitude while she sees his cautiousness as a plus. After all, if it really does take two to make an accident, as long as she's with a careful person, Jordan can do whatever she wants!
What happens to Nick and Jordan's relationship in chapter 8?
While in the city, Nick talks to Jordan Baker. She tells him she had left Daisy's house, and they have a choppy, difficult conversation in which Nick ends their relationship.
What becomes of Jordan and Nick's relationship in Chapter 9?
Sick of the East and its empty values, Nick decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who suddenly claims that she has become engaged to another man.
Nick goes to Jordan Baker's house to set things straight with her. She tells him she is engaged to another man, though Nick doesn't really believe her. Then she accuses Nick of being dishonest with her. Nick leaves, feeling angry and sorry.
After Gatsby's funeral, which no one attends, Nick and Jordan get together because Nick wants to break things off and provide closure to their relationship. Jordan tells him that she's become engaged to someone else, and Nick doubts the truth of her statement.
While Nick and Jordan seem to be fond of each other, Nick's interest is born out of boredom and circumstance. While he feels "a sort of tender curiosity" towards Jordan, Nick states that he never fully loves Jordan.
What happens between Nick and Jordan in chapter 4?
In The Great Gatsby Chapter 4, Jordan reveals the truth about Jay Gatsby. She tells Nick what Gatsby said when he asked to talk to her at the party at his house. At Gatsby's, Jordan has promised to tell Nick the incredible story she has heard from Gatsby's own lips, and in Chapter 4 she keeps that promise.
At the end of chapter 4 we see Nick attempting to show he has feelings for Jordan. When he talks about Daisy and Gatsby together he starts to make moves on Jordan, putting his arm around her and the such. Jordan leans into it. We can see they are starting to like each other.
One family in the East Egg is the Buchanans-Daisy Buchanan, Nick's cousin, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Daisy invites Nick to dinner one evening, where Nick meets a young woman named Jordan Baker.
What changed? -Nick changes his feelings toward Jordan because after the car accident, she behaves the same as Tom and Daisy. He sees her as an over-privileged woman who destroys those around her.
However, Jordan attracts Nick not because she is pretty, or desirable, but because she is difficult to understand and interpret. Looking closer at her, Nick notices that she is “small-breasted” and tries to cover it up by throwing her body back like a “young cadet”.
Following lunch, Nick gets together with Jordan at the Plaza Hotel, where she tells him the story Gatsby shared with her at the party. She reveals that Gatsby, as a young man, had a passionate love affair with Daisy Fay, later known as Daisy Buchanan.
Jordan Baker (The Great Gatsby), a character in the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby based on Edith Cummings. Jordan Baker (umpire) (born 1981), American umpire in Major League Baseball.
Nick became involved with Jordan because of his relationship with Daisy and Tom. He broke the relationship off because he was sick of her immaturity and how she lied all of the time. He said she was on of the most dishonest and careless people he has ever known.
Three days after the murder of Gatsby, a telegram from his father, 'signed Henry C. Gatz' arrives and, a few days later, Mr. Gatz arrives at the mansion.
He bought the house there, hoping she'd wander in to one of his parties. Hoping Daisy would come to one of them. Why does Nick kiss Jordan on their carriage ride at the end of the chapter? Because she's there and he has no one else.
Nick is left to organise Gatsby's funeral. Daisy and Tom have left town. Wolfshiem refuses to come. Hundreds of people attended Gatsby's parties but no-one comes to his funeral apart from Nick, Gatsby's father, and some servants.
In "The Great Gatsby," when Jordan and Nick see each other after Gatsby's death, Jordan tells Nick that she is engaged to another man. She also accuses Nick of being dishonest and not following through with his plans.
