The Great Gatsby: Nick and Jordan

Nick Carraway is a little curious in the way that he mentions his loneliness and discontent with being alone, but he doesn't try very hard to pursue any women. In fact, throughout the book, the only woman with whom he associates with as more than just friends or acquaintances is Jordan Baker, and their relationship seems mostly fueled by her feelings anyway.  I was actually really angry when he ruined the relationship by telling her he didn't want to see her after Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby's fallout.  Jordan had no part in the bad situation, in fact she and Nick had seemed united in their desire to stay out of the entire situation, but Nick rudely dismissed himself at the end of the night.  The following day when she called him on the phone, they both made excuses for why they couldn't meet up until eventually, one of them just hung up.  On a different note, another thing I have noticed about Nick is that he pays very close attention to minute details.  For example, in regards to Jordan Baker he says, "Jordan Baker instinctively voided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible" (Fitzgerald, 58).  Fitzgerald must agree with me in thinking that this is a convenient quality to have in a character that also serves as the narrator of the story so that as much detail can be shared with the reader as possible through the character's thoughts.  Nick is strange in that I never really know what to exact from him, not that he is extremely outgoing, but he just takes strange courses of action.  For example, he wards off Jordan despite his loneliness and older age of thirty.  Also, he decides to help Gatsby meet up with Daisy again despite his friendship with her husband Tom.  Many of his actions surprise me.