Chapter 8
Jordan tells the story of Daisy and Gatsby
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1 On a hazy summer afternoon in 1922, the white Plaza Hotel rises over Fifth Avenue
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2 In the Plaza's gilded tea-garden, Jordan Baker sits very straight and begins her story
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3 Louisville, October 1917: Daisy Fay and Lieutenant Jay Gatsby sit in her white roadster
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4 In Daisy's white roadster, a young lieutenant gazes at her while she talks to Jordan
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5 Before her wedding, drunk Daisy pulls Tom's pearls from a wastebasket, gripping a letter
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6 Daisy's letter lies in the soap-dish as a sodden ball, falling apart like snow
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7 The story is over and the open victoria rolls slowly through Central Park in the hot violet dusk.
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8 Nick remembers the June night on the lawn in West Egg.
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9 In the open victoria at dusk, Nick turns to Jordan, stunned by how small Gatsby's request is.
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10 Night in Central Park: in the open victoria, Nick draws Jordan up close to his face a second time.
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