Chapter 3: pages 39-59

2.  Chapter three starts with Nick describing the coming and goings of lots of people from Gatsby's house. Gatsby throws parties everyday that last all night and most of the people who show up are not even invited. One morning Gatsby's butler goes up to Nick with an invitation inviting him to a party at Gatsby's house. At the party Nick runs into Jordan Baker and they hang out for most of the evening. Nick asks around but no one seems to know where Gatsby is and they don't seem to care either. Nick finally meets Gatsby but at first he does not know who it is and when he finds out that he is talking to Gatsby he is shocked. Gatsby invited Nick to check out his hydroplane the next morning. After the party Nick starts hanging out with Jordan more often, and the chapter ends with saying he thinks he loved her. 


3. a. Jordan Baker


    b.  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrew men, and now i saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. (Fitzgerald 57-58)


    c. Jordan's best quality also is her worst, she is a huge gossiper and if you need information she is the one to give it to you. It is good because that is how we learn that Tom is cheating.


    d. Jordan's purpose in this book is to give up information via Nick, she is the one who tells Nick that Tom is cheating on Daisy. Jordan is also the one to first mention Gatsby and gets the reaction out of Daisy that makes us think she knows him. 


4. A chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it-signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand. (Fitzgerald 41)


I found this quote to be important because it illustrates that Gatsby noticed Nick and wants to get to know him. It is also how Nick ends up at the party and meets Gatsby. In my opinion it also eludes to the fact that maybe Gatsby knows that Nick is Daisy's cousin and somehow thinks that by getting close or befriending Nick he will be able to get to Daisy.