| "You said a bad driver was only safe until she met
another bad driver? Well, I
met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess.
I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person.
I thought it was your secret pride."
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Here is another example of Jordan's carelessness.
This time she was careless in her judgment of Nick's character.
She had believed he was a careful person.
Yet, he proved to be a careless person in his relationship with
Jordan, and the result was an emotional car accident between the two of
them. This just further
proves the point that careless people tend to associate with other
careless people. In the end,
they rejected each other, because as Jordan pointed out earlier, those who
are careless hate other people who are careless.
It must be that perversity of human nature that Edgar Allan Poe was
so interested in that caused them to be originally attracted to each other
despite their mutual carelessness. It
is also slightly ironic, yet mostly hypocritical of Nick to openly accused
Daisy and Tom, and inwardly accuse Jordan of carelessness when he himself
is guilty of the same sin.
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