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only other feature of note is a large advertisement for an optometrist, two large

eyes that look over the barren area. When Tom and Nick arrive in the city, they

visit with Myrtle and her sister, Catherine McKee. They gossip about Gatsby,

who they believe to be related to the Kaiser or perhaps a murderer. Around

Tom and away from her husband, the earthy Myrtle Wilson adopts an affected,

pretentious tone. She and Tom argue about Daisy, and Tom breaks her nose.

Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker attend a party at Gatsby’s mansion. At the

party, few of the attendees are actually invited guests or even know Gatsby.

Even Nick, when he first meets Gatsby, does not recognize him. Gatsby asks to

speak to Jordan Baker alone, and after talking with Gatsby for a significant time

she tells Nick that she learned some remarkable news which she cannot yet tell

him. During this time, Nick and Jordan begin a half-hearted romance, spending

time together occasionally while often losing sight of one another.

Some time later, Gatsby visits Nick’s home and invites him to lunch. At this

point Gatsby’s origins are unclear, but Gatsby clarifies the story: he tells Nick

that he is from a wealthy San Francisco and was educated at Oxford after

serving in the Great War (for which he received a number of decorations).

However, his tentative manner indicates that he may be lying to Nick. He tells

Nick that Jordan Baker soon will reveal to Nick the remarkable news that

Gatsby had told her. At lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to an associate, Meyer

Wolfsheim, a notorious criminal noted for fixing the 1919 World Series. When

Nick sees the Buchanans there, Gatsby mysteriously avoids them. Later, Jordan

Baker tells Nick the story of Gatsby, recounting that he had fallen in love with

Daisy Buchanan before the war and implying that he still is in love with her.

She also implies that Daisy has been in love with Gatsby as well.

Gatsby has Nick arrange a meeting between him and Daisy. Gatsby has

planned every detail to perfection. When he shows her his mansion, it is an

ostentatious display of his wealth and possessions. Yet Gatsby behaves

awkwardly toward Daisy. Gatsby had built up such grandiose dreams for