The basic answer to this question is degree of intensity. Nick’s and Jordan’s kiss is “ho-hum” while Daisy and Gatsby’s kiss is “va-va-va-voom!” In fact, Fitzgerald compares the two moments directly! (Fascinating!) Let’s look at them both just for fun.

In Chapter IV when Nick and Gatsby ride together into New York, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, in Gatsby’s words “something about my life.” He then tells Nick of his wealthy Midwestern family background and his Oxford education–a family tradition, he said.

One morning in July

Gatsby showed Nick two souvenirs: a photo of him at Oxford and the medal from Montenegro.

Because he is terrified that Daisy will refuse to see him, Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy to tea. Without Daisy’s knowledge, Gatsby intends to come to the tea at Nick’s house as well, surprising her and forcing her to see him.

Each of the men, Nick realizes, is motivated by his desire to be loved by a “disembodied face float[ing] along the dark cornices.” Nick, feeling empty at the realization he has no such dream, pulls Jordan closer to him, ending the chapter with a kiss.

Daisy is cheating on her husband with Gatsby. When her husband leaves the room, she kisses Gatsby. When she’s warned about her behavior by Jordan, Daisy tells her to kiss Nick. The main idea that we need to understand from Daisy’s attitude and also the attitude of the other characters centers on ethics and morality.

Nick and Jordan’s relationship is unique in the novel—they’re not having an affair, unlike Tom/Myrtle and Daisy/Gatsby, and they’re not married, unlike Myrtle/George and Daisy/Tom.

What is the cause of the problem between Jordan and Nick? Nick is getting tired of her because she’s just like Daisy and Tom and after last night with all the commotion he’s sick of all of them.

Sick of the East and its empty values, Nick decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who suddenly claims that she has become engaged to another man. Just before he leaves, Nick encounters Tom on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

This line says it all: they were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .

She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money.

Gatz, it seems, learned of Jimmy’s (Gatsby’s) death through the Chicago newspaper. Pulling out a copy of Hopalong Cassidy, once owned by the young Jimmy Gatz, Gatsby’s father points out his young son’s drive toward self-improvement by calling Nick’s attention to the daily schedule penciled in the back.

they used to go there by the hundreds.” How does the quote illustrate the irony of Gatsby’s funeral? A. Gatsby had all the money in the world but couldn’t afford a good funeral. People believed that Gatsby’s death was a hoax, so they refused to answer Nick’s calls.

Gatz also shows Nick a picture of Gatsby’s mansion that his son gave him and mentions that James bought him a home in the Midwest. Mr. Gatz also shows Nick his son’s strict self-improvement schedule written in the back of a book, which reveals James Gatz’s work ethic and dedication.