The Great Gatsby: Chapter 4 cont.

Continuing in chapter four of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker becomes very significant in the process of the plot.  As a minor character she becomes more enveloped in the drama of the novel.  Gatsby asks Jordan to tell Nick his former relationship with Daisy and why he is currently living in this particular area.  Gatsby wants Nick to know all of this so Nick will have Gatsby and Daisy over for tea so they can see each other again without Daisy's knowledge.  Jordan makes this possible by telling Nick.

"One October day in nineteen-seventeen--(said Jordan Baker that afternoon..." (Fitzgerald, 74).

 This excerpt is from the beginning of the story that Jordan tells to Nick about Gatsby and Daisy.  She tells Nick everything she knows and he begins to understand.  Once she tells him what Gatsby wants from him, Nick is confused why it has to be at his house.  I am still a little confused why it has to be at Nick's house.  Maybe because it would look too eager or suspicious to be at Gatsby's house.  Although I don't know what they are going to do with Tom while this tea is going on.