... have pursued Daisy again. However, Gatsby is reassured of Daisy's love by Nick. Later, Daisy hosts a dinner party for Tom, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan. Tom notices the passionate looks Gatsby sends to Daisy and becomes infuriated. He begins to ask Gatsby probing questions about his personal life then suggests that all ... Gatsby and Daisy drive away frantically, hoping no one saw. George is now frantic and nearly comatose when speaking to police, while Tom, Nick, and Jordan arrive at the scene. Tom realizes that his Myrtle has been killed and sobs over her dead body. Tom speaks to George to...

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... drive at all. This also shows that she is careless because she does not care how she affects her society. That is just one of the ways that Jordan Baker simulates carelessness. Miss Baker shows carelessness when she goes to all of Gatsby's parties. The majority of the people that go to Gatsby's parties are not ... is. This shows that if Nick does not know Gatsby and he is his neighbor then how all of the people who go to the parties know him. Jordan Baker also demonstrates this theme by being included in the scandal of Gatsby and Daisy. This is careless because Gatsby and Daisy need to ...

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... The "foul dust" mentioned throughout the novel serves to corrupt everything it encounters. It is this foul dust that represents the lives of Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. After all, they are all immoral characters. A word such as dust successfully gives off a negative ambiance, but for Nick to go the step further ... with them. Like most people, Nick the character chose to neglect the faults of his good-old friend Tom, his cousin Daisy, and his lover Jordan. To him, it was more important to fit in with these rich, sophisticated people than to risk his friendship with them by pointing out their ...

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... 1920's the view on women began to change. Before, men were thought to be more superior to women. However in F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby the three main characters, Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle, are modern women. Although modern, they are portrayed as dishonest and unflattering. In The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as shallow, ditzy, and foolish. Daisy cares about ... . She loves getting attention from men, but is not interested in a relationship. When she is with Nick she feels like she can be herself and talk to him about anything. Jordan loves big parties. "And I like...

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... literary devices. One of the device he used is characterization. The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is a protagonist. He is from Minnesota and he came to West Egg, to learn bond business ... he is graduated from Yale University and a very honest person. He goes to see his cousin, Daisy Buchanan in East Egg. We are also introduced to Jordan Baker at that time. She is a professional golf player. After visiting East Egg, Nick and Tom Buchanan, who is Daisy's husband go...

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... that he was masking something different from what the rest inhabitants of the Eggs were hiding. Gatsby's secret conversation at the party with a woman called Jordan Baker, a sophisticated but dishonest woman who had cheated on her first golf tournament, is an important clue to what Gatsby was hiding- perhaps the secret ... motivations behind his life of opulence and display of ostentatious living. Gatsby in that meeting disclosed to Jordan who is a friend of Daisy, the whole affair of his love for Carrie and how he had bought the mansion on West Egg solely to ... her. Gatsby urged Baker...

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... . Nick shows us his romantic side as well. He has come into a relationship with a rebellious young girl by the name of Jordan. Nick is thirty years old and in his old age he wants to settle down with someone. Jordan is a good friend of Daisy's and has some of the same qualities as her as we find out in the end. " Her ... warm face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder- (Fitzgerald 143). Nick is talking of his love Jordan. Even though there is a hint of love in the relationship between the two, it is not enough for Jordan. She wants the better things in life just like her friend Daisy. M...

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... careless society. His spectacles represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland. As seen in the attire of both Daisy and Jordan, white is used to improve their pure appearances. When Nick first sees Daisy and Jordan, they are both dressed in white, trying to appear pure. As Nick Learns more about Daisy and ... Jordan, their dresses turn yellow and gold, symbolizing their impurity and tasteless character. Another important aspect of the novel is the portrayal of women. Women in ... getting jobs, and wearing unrefined and risqué clothing, women went a...

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... and corruption in the Great Gatsby. This imagery of yellow warns readers that not all is what it appears to be. In the beginning, Daisy and Jordan give the illusion of purity when Nick sees them wearing white dresses. But as the story progresses, their flaws are revealed, transitioning from white dresses to ... the color white emphasizes innocence and purity but in reality becomes deceiving and hides the truth of characters. White is first mentioned as Nick describes Daisy and Jordan at East Egg, appearing, "both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just...

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... dream is on its death-bed, so to speak. Many examples of this can be found in the upper-crust Old rich like Tom and Daisy, and to some extent, Jordan. Materialism is also seen in Gatsby and other Neauveaux riche characters, such as Meyer Wolfsheim. Also the near death of the American dream can be seen in the working class ... as he sees fit. So, naturally, that is why Tom has affairs with so many women, and Daisy says nothing in protest. This is shown when Nick is talking to Jordan while Tom is on the phone with his mistress and she says, " "Why-" she said hesitantly. "Tom's got some wo...

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... of the American Dream were for the good, people became so focused on pursuing wealth, that many became corrupted. In the novel, Tom, Daisy and Jordan were chief examples of the corruption of the American Dream. Jordan cheated in her golf, to obtain wealth and popularity, Tom and Daisy became morally irresponsible and were unfaithful to one another, and even Gatsby's business ... was an illustration of their careless and indulgent lives; for example, Nick writes " they conducted themselves according to the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park" (pg 43). Also Jordan's carel...

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... notion of the American Dream is. One of the motifs used was dishonesty, more specifically, dishonesty of the rich. In Chapter 3, Jordan mentions that she cheated in a golf tournament to win and Nick thinks about what kind of person she is: "Jordan Baker avoided instinctively clever, shrewd men, and I now saw this because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from ... a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage " (pg. 57-58). This quote shows that Jordan lies about important things to be able to stay bathing ...

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... himself from mistaking the glittering appearance for the true state of things. The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. It is not accidental, for example, that Daisy and Jordan, when they are introduced to the reader in the first scene of the novel, are dressed in white. In this scene, in which almost all of the color symbols are ... after a short flight around the house." White traditionally symbolizes purity, and there is no doubt that Fitzgerald wants to underscore the ironic disparity between the ostensible purity of Daisy and Jordan and their actual corruption. But Fit...

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... frequently, it shows a great decline in moral values. As a sign of further decadence, rampant dishonesty is effortlessly shown by Myrtle, Jordan, and Tom. According to Nick Carraway, "[Jordan Baker] was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage (Fitzgerald 63)." Jordan's frequent dishonesty shows that she will lie to protect or assist herself, and that she possesses very little regard for ... ...

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... man who lives in West Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, a Gas Station owner. On this night Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy's and an acquaintance of Gatsby Nick's neighbor in West Egg, who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is invited to ... one of these parties and he and Jay soon become good friends. Both have things in common, one being they both know Daisy Buchanan. It is discovered through Daisy's friend Jordan that Jay and Daisy were once lovers, and that Jay has...

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... Nick's house is the enormous home of Mr. Gatsby. One evening, Nick has dinner with his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan. There he meets her husband Tom and their lady friend Jordan Baker. During the visit, Nick learns that Tom has a mistress named Myrtle Wilson, who owns a gas station with her husband. Later that week, Nick is invited to one of Gatsby ... 's famous parties where he than encounters Jordan Baker once again. They sit at a table together and find their tablemate to be Mr. Gatsby himself. Nick later learns that Gatsby and his cousin Daisy were once in love ... or someone she kn...

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... uninvolved in the sense that he is not willing to act upon what he feels are the faults of the other individuals around him. Some example is when he realizes Jordan baker is a liar and that this a defect held in her personality. "She was incurably dishonest." (63) Another time is when he truly discovers s the irresponsibility of Tom and Daisy. At ... all these conclusions about the characters he is still willing to tolerate the defects of these individuals. The turning point of his development occurs when he sees the reactions of Jordan and the Buchanans to Myrtle Wilson's death. At thi...

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... apparent or say. We can't be sure what's the truth, so we must be careful what we believe in. Well, we get to know the age of Daisy (23) and Jordan (21), and we are told that Tom has cheated on his wife even before the affair with Myrtle. There's an interesting contrast between the relation Gatsby-Daisy, which is very ... romantic and consists in idealistic devotion, the idea of Daisy rules his whole life although he never sees her. On the contrary, the relation Nick-Jordan, which is very realistic, wordly, also because Jordan's such a sceptical girl. It's all about the physical attract...

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... mentioned in this novel is dishonest except for Wilson and Nick Carraway. Tom Buchanan lies about owning Gatsby's car: "I bought it last week". Gatsby lies countless times about his past, Jordan cheats in golf and Myrtle lies to her husband about visiting her sister. Daisy does not make an out-right lie, but the reader is left without a doubt that she ... a definite goal. He has been striving towards this goal for five years and has poured his soul into making it come true, and shaped his life around it. While Daisy, Jordan and Tom do not know or care what they will be doing from one da...

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... of the wealthy upper-class lifestyle which Gatsby so desperately yearns for, which would explain his want for her. 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. This theme also raises some philosophical and moral questions such as whether or not it ... ...

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... them and strived live their lives according to their personal American Dream. These changes in women's roles are present in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. The two main women characters, Daisy and Jordan, both portray different and important characteristics of the normal women growing up in the 1920's. Therefore I believe Fitzgerald aims to portray the changing women roles that were occurring at that ... shows how open Daisy is about her affair with Gatsby. Daisy makes an effort to hide her love for Gatsby from Tom, however she openly kisses him in front of Jordan. The fact that Daisy kisses...

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... the net"(8). Here, Daisy herself is the American dream, since her voice causes excitement within men in the same manner in which the American Dream provokes excitement. Also, when Jordan elaborates that Daisy never desired to attain love ", yet there's something in that voice of hers"(77), she demonstrates how elusive Daisy is and how deceiving her voice ... is, since when Jordan's analyzing the situation, she suddenly is distracted by Daisy's voice. This excitement and distraction, which is what Daisy provokes on Gatsby, is the naiveté caused by the illusion of ... ...

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... had doubts about them having more authority or being equal in general. Even though women were slowly losing discrimination, many went on to accomplish goals and dreams of their own. Jordan is a well known golf player as Nick Carraway states, "At first I was flattered to go to places with her because she was a golf champion and everyone knew her name ... " (63). Women like Jordan were praised for their outstanding performances in certain areas and subjects and were not seen differently to men. Not only does the Great Gatsby capture the view of women during ... ...

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... hard to achieve, but only to be spiritually killed when he failed to win Daisy's love. His physical death didn't really matter, for he had already died of a broken heart. Jordan also exhibited a need for a better life. She lied herself to the top- within her golfing career and personality. Nick, who rarely talked negatively about anybody, made the comment that every ... word out of her mouth was a lie. Lying is a way of covering the truth, Jordan's truth being that her life wasn't what she had hoped. Tom was a man of complete social status. He yearned to look good and to be envied by al...

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... one that he discovered back when he sat with her for hours just staring into her eyes and talking. He just wanted to relive that moment. Finally, after Gatsby met Jordan and Jordan convinced Nick to invite Daisy over, he had his chance. He sat with her again and tried to make everything as it was. He tried to recreate that magic ... ...

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