One excellent example of this found within the novel being Jordan Baker the sexually liberated pro-golfer/flapper. ... After the war women generally came to the conclusion that there was more to life than taking care of children and a house. ... Jordan Baker is a perfect example of this. ... An additional note for interest is that there was a very famous flapper named Josephine Baker who would have been in New York during the events of The Great Gatsby, however despite the name, location and fact they were flappers her and Jordan Baker have prett...

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Her nature along with that of the other female characters in the novel such as Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker is characterized by a lack of purpose and identity which explains their ambiguous behaviors. ... There is only one part in The Great Gatsby where Daisy has a brief encounter with her daughter but she seems uninterested in her suggesting that she has not been an important figure in her daughter's life. ... Nick Carraway gives us the first impression on Jordan Baker as being the ideal model of a flapper when he describes her as a "slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect c...

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When World War I ended in 1918 several young Americans who had fought in the war returned to America with a heightened disillusion of reality, as the horrors of the war made everyday life and social morality of the early 1900's seem trivial. ... The location of the eggs, out on long island, displays the significance of urbanization and the rise of suburbia of the 1920s; people who desired to have spaciousness homes and the nature of small town life while having the access to the glamorous city life could achieve this. ... Another character that exhibits the looser moral values of the time...

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Myrtle Wilson, who is unhappy with her marriage, finds a sort of new life in the arms of Tom who apparently has had various affairs while away in New York during his marriage to Daisy. ... Another character who pursues the American dream is Myrtle Wilson who is sick of her husband and wants a taste of the finer life and so sleeps with a sleazy rich man in hopes of pursuing that taste and living a wealthier life as his mistress. ... We also see the character of Jordan Baker pursuing her goals using dirty methods in the novel; Jordan cheats in golf tournaments to win and fulfil her goal. ... Soc...

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This can be seen through how Jordan Baker's name refers to two 'twenties car manufacturers, and other references, such as "the Baedeker girls" of Baedeker Travel Guide Fame, or "the Chrysties," presumably of Christie's Auctioning Fame. ... Roger Lewis writes that this was "poignancy further increased by the futility of his money in achieving this end", and this echoes parts of Fitzgerald's life, as he couldn't originally marry the woman he loved because he lacked wealth, and nowadays, it would be unheard of. ... Reinforced by the ideas of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate