Nick Carraway's "diary entry"

Imagine that you are Nick Carraway. Write your thoughts and feelings after the meal with Gatsby and Wolfshiem.

Finally, I could meet up Mr. Gatsby again, at noon. Somehow the bustling crowd at the Forty-second street underground restaurant made me feels the pressure of being sociable, and being a man of many acquaintances. Then there was an abominable feeling when I saw those inconspicuous conversations between Gatsby and another man. I didn’t try being impolite behind my friend’s back but seriously this isn’t what I was looking for. Can you imagine Mr. Gatsby, a fine gentleman, could hang with friends like that? For me, I think they were just discussing about his big business. I reminded myself not judging other people through their looking, but Mr. Wolfshiem – the man who has an impressive nose that Gatsby introduced him to me earlier, doesn’t gave me any good impression. In addition, Wolfshiem couldn’t make me seem anymore blurring as he ignored me immediately after greeting. He seemed to be closed to Gatsby more than I do, but I’m surely the one that really cares about his life, his personality and what is good for him. I guess no one could worry about Gatsby’s safety right now as I do, and I doubt about his fortune, as well as his past.

The fact that I kept all the feelings of abandon to myself not because I’m afraid to speak up, I just don’t want to be someone’s humiliation. And I think I made a good choice to ask about the old Metropole. Now I’m consider that meeting again, I know I think deeper and more mature than anyone, unlike someone started to be nice to me and then made me disappear in front of Gatsby’s eyes, and then chatted with him on sentimental memories. Such an opportunist!

I noticed his terrible nose, not because it caught my eyes, even more than that, his nose represents something about his personality towards my responses. It flashed, his nose flashed, and the reason of this is because he thought he knows everything. Obviously, it was his business to know remember his memories of Rosy and what happened at the Metropole. I called it showing off and I don’t care about his business, it was just impolite to ignore his stories.

Apart from Mr. Wolfshiem, there are concealment and secrecy in the way Gatsby acted, in front of my attendance. I knew that Gatsby avoided talking to Mr. Wolfshiem about their businesses. As I said before, I don’t like mysteries; I didn’t even enjoy sitting there and hear Gatsby whispering about my attitudes as he tried to comfort me. This time he should have compensated for me. Then, I took one more look at Wolfshiem, just in case I could discover any of his personalities through his nose. He acted normal, faster, but normal. His eyes glanced around, checked everything…Only I know, there was panic, anxiety in his tiny eyes! And his nose trembled. At the time, I knew that he shivered with fear, the fear of revealing his secrets. The he tried to get away with it as it was nothing happened at all. There was a fact about the World’s Series that shocked me with the ideas of Mr. Wolfshiem is a dangerous person to know, and also not easy not work in business with. I’m eager for protecting Gatsby.

There was a strange moment, I met Tom, and Gatsby disappeared! How could he do such a thing like that? That wasn’t the gentleman I used to know. I think again to myself, he must have very important business to deal with and he was not being impolite at all. At least he’s gone after greeting Tom, even though, he haven’t say goodbye to me.