I was with Daisy
the day I met Nick, he was her second cousin once removed and all I knew was
that he was going to share dinner with us.
Daisy and I were enjoying the sun room when he and Tom arrived, barely
looking at him out of the corner of my eye I saw him standing there; it seemed
in awe of us, timidly glancing in every direction and shifting his weight as if
deciding which direction to move.
When we finally moved onto dinner he
sat, observing the time more than participating in it. I talked quickly with Daisy, feeling it a
burden to let the men in on our discussions, but then Tom’s woman called and
Daisy swept herself out of the room. So
I took pity on Nick and let him in on the obvious scene that he seemed lost
in. “You mean to say you don’t
know? I thought everybody knew. Why- Tom’s got some woman in New York.” (15) a look of surprise and then confusion as to
why Daisy allowed it came over his face.
As of this first meeting Nick
strikes me as extremely passive, and always a little behind on the occurrences
of the moment. I think that it may be
his confusion with the new big city as opposed to his time spent in the Midwest,
but I suppose anyone would need time to adjust.
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