... 's occupations. Fauna is a whorehouse owner. She sells prostitutes for a living. Jordan Baker is a professional golfer. She has a respectful and legitimate career. The two also differ with their take on life. Jordan Baker takes life as it is. Jordan Baker shows this by knowing that Tom Buchanan is having an affair and not trying ... for Doc and she tells Doc everything. Another difference between these characters is their relationship with the main females in the novel. Jordan Baker and Daisy are life-long friends. Fitzgerald tells of experiences during their childhood (teenage) years. F...

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... 's occupations. Fauna is a whorehouse owner. She sells prostitutes for a living. Jordan Baker is a professional golfer. She has a respectful and legitimate career. The two also differ with their take on life. Jordan Baker takes life as it is. Jordan Baker shows this by knowing that Tom Buchanan is having an affair and not trying ... for Doc and she tells Doc everything. Another difference between these characters is their relationship with the main females in the novel. Jordan Baker and Daisy are life-long friends. Fitzgerald tells of experiences during their childhood (teenage) years. F...

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... Gatsby joined the army, but after he returns, Gatsby devotes his life to be reunited with Daisy. They still love each other after five years of separation. In the first stage of the relationship, Gatsby and Daisy are madly in love with each other. Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy's, recalls the day in which she ... was going overseas," once again, the soldier being Gatsby. After Gatsby leaves, time passes and things change. Daisy becomes engaged to a rich man named Tom Buchanan. Jordan Baker, still recalling these events was a bridesmaid, "I came into her room half an hour before th...

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... the security he can offer her. Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband and in the meantime did not treat him well. Jordan Baker is a woman who lies and is also very independent in life and would prefer not to have a man in her life. Women often have many reasons for loving and staying with the different men in their lives. Daisy abuses the men ... in many different ways. The women in the novel all treated their men in one common way. They really did not care about their emotional well being. Jordan Baker does not have a husband in her life. She chooses to be independent, but when she is wi...

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... as was the mentality back in those days. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a true literary masterpiece based on the tragic life of Jay Gatsby through the eyes of his acquaintance and neighbour, Nick Carraway. The story travels through different settings based on New York, and ... his opinion that women generally have low moral qualities, and demonstrates this by the actions and speech illustrated by the three female characters: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. In the eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan was the typical depiction of the rich, young, marr...

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... story and the summer progress, Nick finally accepts an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. While there he bumps into Jordan Baker, and they meet Gatsby for the first time. After talking privately with Gatsby, Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby and Daisy dated in Louisville in 1917 and that he is still in love with her. A ... gun on himself. Nick arranges a small funeral for Gatsby, terminates his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disapproval he feels for the people surrounding Gatsby's life and for the shallowness and immorality of the life among the w...

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... quarrels and disagreements irrupt about the love Jay wants to show Daisy she is forced to choose between two men, one from her old life and one from the new life she is living. Nick continues to abide by his many morals, however, shuns them when in contact with Gatsby and the rest of ... , and complete selflessness. Nick is a sincere individual and observes the fallacies in the lives of his new found opulent friends. For example, he realizes that Jordan Baker is an incurable liar and cheater in the game of golf. He sees that her fraudulence is a great defect in her personality, yet he i...

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... Although behind all of his work, it revealed truly as to who and what he is. There are those who are responsible for the ending of his life. So, those who are around him are all collectively responsible. Jay Gatsby is not a tragic hero because of his behaviors and actions that was done throughout ... because of an error in judgment of because of a personality failure." Jay Gatsby definitely "bring[s] about his own downfall." Not only he ruined his own life, he also jeopardized the Buchanan's marriage, even though Tom himself is having an affair. His desire to be with Daisy Buchanan is not...

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... , written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. The story follows a man named Jay Gatsby, who is Nick's neighbour; he is a man who has wrapped his life within the past five years around his sole desire to be with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. In this ... 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...

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... work as a bond salesman. Settled in West Egg, he renews his relationship with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. From Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Nick learns that Tom is unfaithful and Daisy is aware of his habits. Tom insists that Nick meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Nick joins Tom ... for daring to mention Daisy's name. Caught up in the bitterness of the Buchanans" turmoil, Nick finds himself immediately trapped as well in Gatsby's turbulent life. Gatsby's is a lavish world of weekend parties attended by guests who rarely meet their host. Gatsby's showy parties fail to satisfy hi...

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... Buchanan's character he is always shown trying to control someone, whether it be Gatsby or Daisy. In contrast the women in the novel, Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker, are portrayed as angelic. Yet both the men and the women in the novel seem to be very elitist. Tom asserts his power by controlling people. ... lifestyle was something Nick didn't understand and to someone who gets by without those luxuries it seems unnecessary. To Nick and most readers Daisy and Tom's life would be a big dream and the two of them take advantage of everything they have, which seems unfair. "[Daisy] vanishe...

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... more than friends. One day Nick drives to East Egg the more prestigious, upscale part of Town, where Tom and Daisy live. Also joining them was Gatsby and Jordan Baker, who is a friend of Daisy as well as Nick's lover. Daisy complains of her boredom and asks Gatsby if he wants to go into the city. ... Tom then steps in and agrees with Daisy that it would be a good idea. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby's car, and Daisy and Gatsby rides together in Tom's car. On the way there they stop for gas at Wilson's garage for some ... of old between him and Daisy. You cannot go back in time...

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... the allied side with a machine gun battalion, he returned to his home in Chicago. With no clear direction of what he wanted to do with his life, he decided to move to New York to enter into the business of selling bonds. He settled down on an area of Long Island called West Egg, ... War I vet. Not far away lived a married couple Daisy and Tom Buchanan which he knew relatively well. It was at their residence that he met a woman, Jordan Baker, who was to become his good friend and later his girl friend. Carraway soon became a good friend with his rich neighbour next door, Gatsby, and soon ...

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... . The author F. Scott Fitzgerald outlines the unique life style lived by those men but especially the women living in this time frame. Women in the 1920's were often considered to be very feminine and have no part in any mens business. This is displayed with the characters of Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson. Although jordan was considered to be quite masculine in ... to come and visit as he believe's that he will have a chance in once again winning her heart back as he has now got the riches to support her luscious life style. Although he does win her heart back there in o...

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... the walls are covered with green plants and that he has a very large green garden and lawn. If we than look at Daisy and Tom or Jordan we see that they look like gold as well: "Jordan's slender golden arm". An other color that has the same meaning as gold or yellow in this book is silver. Silver is also a color common ... are green and that only his outside looks green or gold. This also shows us the importance of money in Gatsby's life as money is his main fuel to try and accomplice his dream or to get Daisy back into his life. Green also just represents money or wealth in general. Blue ...

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... affair, but says nothing of it and tries to overlook it constantly. 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. There is also the questionable love ... 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 mora...

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... 's. It's about the lives of a group of people who all become entangled in a web of, lying, scandal, and cheating together. Nick Carraway lives anormal? life on Long Island, until he meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Parties went on every weekend, and Nick gets caught up in Gatsby'sglamorous? lifestyle. Soon, everyone ... was Tom, and was trying to talk to him. All the while, Nick starts realizing how terrible a life like Gatsby's is despite the outer glamour. He also becomes emotionally attached to golf player, Jordan Baker. After Mr. Wilson finds out who was in the car that killed his wi...

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... of reach of his hand. "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before""(Fitzgerald 116). Jay Gatsby believes that he can manifest a fantasy life where he is prosperous, and where Daisy is devoted to him. R. W. Stallman in his critical essay states, "To fix time and reinstate thus the ... not great because chasing a dream of his became his eventual downfall. This can be proven from a critical essay which states, "Jay Gatsby loses his life even though he makes his millions because they are not the kind of save, respectable money that echoes in Daisy's lovely voice."(Orstein 56). G...

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... bridal dinner she received a letter from Gatsby saying he was coming home. Daisy was so distraught that she got herself extremely drunk and decided to call the entire thing off. Jordan Baker, one of her best friends, helped her sober up to some extent, and the next evening she married Tom. When Gatsby returned to the states, he took a short-cut. Gatsby ... to achieve the highest their abilities or desires will allow them to achieve. This achievement is attained through a series of reasonable goals. In a sense, the American Dream is the "perfect life." Each person's view is slightly diff...

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... and their drunken escorts are among those who "crash" his extravagant soirees. As Nick Carroway tells us, "People were not invited- they went there." (pg.40) Shallow, corrupt people like Jordan Baker gossip with reckless abandon about their mysterious host. Their careless, superficial attitudes and wanton behavior represent Fizgarald's depiction of the corrupt American Dream. Another force of corruption responsible for Gatsby ... pervert his sacred dream. He prefers the pretty illusions he concocts to the harsh reality of the obsession he allows to corrupt his life. Gatsby's character i...

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... , was revealed to the narrator, Nick, gradually throughout the course of the novel. On the surface, Jay Gatsby appeared to be extremely wealthy and generally happy with his place in life, and this is how he appears to Nick at the beginning of the novel. Gatsby threw big parties and people were not invited; they just showed up, as explained by ... the hints that Meyer Wolfshiem drops and the things Jay tells Nick about Meyer. The reader is finally told why Gatsby is unhappy at the end of chapter four, when Jordan Baker tells Nick about Gatsby's love for Daisy. The next major revelation ab...

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... beautiful little fool"(21). Whenever company comes over, she beckons for the little girl to come and put on an act for everyone. This is symbolic of Daisy's life; she is kept in the closet until it is time to show off for company, then 2 she becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone, she is ... a bored housewife, of no importance to the world and wondering aloud what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocence is false. Daisy frequently reminds us that love is exactly what you make of it, ... and seller...

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... no one cared about him as a person. The Character's in "The Great Gatsby" are very interesting. The main characters consist of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and George Wilson. Nick to me seems very honest and patient, he does not judge people straight away, he likes Jay ... Gatsby but sees all his faults, he thinks Gatsby is dishonest, he knows Gatsby is not telling the truth about his life, he knows that Gatsby has dealt in criminal businesses to become rich to impress Daisy. Nick may not approve of Gatsby, yet he still thinks of ... blemish...

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