... to be roiled by unstable emotions. 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. Daisy proves her real nature and her love for ... from the tight corsets of the Victorian style, they were described as more boyish and less feminine. 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 carriage, ... which she accentuated...

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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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... 28, further expresses the pure nature of the couple's exchanges. Fitzgerald uses the colours silver and white almost exclusively to describe Daisy and Jordan, for example "They were both white, and their dresses were rippling" and "Daisy and Jordan lay... like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses". Despite these symbolic colours of purity being associated with these characters the reader ... discovers that they are not as they appear, Daisy choosing to have a short affair with Gatsby even though she is married to Tom Buchanan, and Jordan being accused of cheating at her fi...

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... woman named Myrtle, and Tom's wife Daisy knows and doesn't bother to stop it. Another character that exhibits the looser moral values of the time is Jordan Baker, who exemplifies the "new woman " of the 1920's. Jordan Baker is a professional golfer with short bob hair and short dress that exemplifies the look of a flapper, defying past social norms by being a woman outside ... the possibilities that wealth and power can create and the irresponsibility that can ultimately ruin it. There is no limit to the greed and self-centeredness of the novel's characters. Jordan Baker accurately port...

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... and nouveau rich explored above. Another example of changes occurring within the 1920's American culture was the role of women. One excellent example of this found within the novel being Jordan Baker the sexually liberated pro-golfer/flapper. Another brief history lesson: At the end of the first world war the role of women dramatically changed. Due to the large numbers ... leap of a step upwards being accepted as equal citizens. This changed female society's attitude towards many things. They started drinking alcohol, smoking and dancing a new type of dance called "swing ". Jordan Baker...

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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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... 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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... 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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... ; something like this was to their lives. Furthermore, it is clear whom Fitzgerald refers to, when he describes the rich, due to their names. 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 ... ...

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... them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea." Daisy and Jordan "were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house." In this scene, there ... ...

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... and symbols. The characters might be divided into three groups: Nick, the observer and commentator, who sees what has gone wrong Gatsby, who lives the dream purely Tom, Daisy, and Jordan, the "foul dust" who are the prime examples of the corruption of the dream. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate