Chapter 5
Nick's summer: work, loneliness, Jordan
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1 At summer dawn, tiny clerks hurry through the white stone canyons of lower Manhattan
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2 At twilight, Nick walks alone up Fifth Avenue among motorcars and lit shop windows
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3 On Fifth Avenue at twilight, Nick passes lone young clerks and sees his own loneliness
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4 Nick stands alone on a dark street in the Forties as taxis of laughing couples roll by
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5 It is midsummer at a house-party in Warwick.
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6 On a rain-soaked porch in Warwick, Jordan Baker calmly denies leaving a car in the rain
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7 Jordan drives the open car on a wet road and calmly tells Nick she likes him
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8 Jordan Baker keeps her grey eyes on the road after telling Nick she likes him
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9 Alone in the club library at night, Nick holds his pen just above the end of his weekly letter home.
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