Gatsby

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hort affair with a girl from Jersey City. He knows t hat Jordan is dishonest--she cheated in her first golf tournament by moving her ball to improve her lie. Whatever Nick's reason for being with her, we're made to feel that somehow Jordan is not the kind of woman Nick ought to like.
At the end of the chapter r Nick says, "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal
Virtues and this is mine; I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." This is one of the most talked about lines in the novel, and it is a hard one to interpret, coming as it does right after Nick's statement that "dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply." Is Nick using a double standard, arguing that it's all right for women to be dishonest because they can't help it.

3) In my opinion I don’t Nick is in love with Jordan. He is more infatuated with her. He loses interest in her extravagant lifestyle and begins to real how "careless" she is. Unlike Gatsby who is in a romanticized vision of Daisy. I think he only liked her because h...