Chapter #5 "The Love Affair"

In chapter 5, of "The Great Gatsby", written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick and Gatsby seem to work together and try to finalize and try out the plan that Gatsby wants to be with Daisy. Daisy, as you remember is one of Tom's wives, so it's pretty weird how you would see Daisy cheating on her husband, because remember, the reason Daisy couldn't cheat was because Jordan said she was Catholic and such. Shifting back to talking about Nick and Gatsby's team up on this whole entire plan, in the book Gatsby is sort of anxious and weird because he just wants the plans for Nick and Daisy to go well so when he meets Daisy everything is perfect. It says in the book "Just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before..." (Fitzgerald 93). He asks Nick to get his men to cut his lawn and such (knowing that's how Gatsby gets around, by asking to do favors for one in return) and Nick refuses all of them. That goes to show Nick as a very modest and caring character throughout the book. This sort of remind me of Nick being the "Hemingway Hero" in the book "Great Gatsby". Now I say this for a couple reasons. Throughout the book thus far, Nick seems to be the only man that is modest about his money (even though he's not as rich as Tom and Gatsby), he is very mature as a man, he doesn't go cheating on girls and such, and he is very caring and always there for Tom and Gatsby and does not accept any gifts in return, like Nick getting his lawn cut or even "make some money" with whatever side business that Gatsby has going on. If I were to predict anything coming up in the next couple chapters, I would have to say that this "side business' that Gatsby is in is most likely a drug dealing or trade. Gatsby has so much money and it all has to come from somewhere. I know it can't all be from his little side business but I predict later in the book it will come up and Gatsby will reveal that it's a drug business.