After getting settled, Nick visits the Buchanans and meets Daisy Buchanan "whom I scarcely knew at all" (p. 11) and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. ... Jordan Baker was "motionless with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall" (p. 13). ... Baker, to her hurt finger, etc. ... In one way, Fitzgerald may have been referring to his belief that if a woman was to actually live in a high-class, monied world, a woman had to literally be a fool, or a dolt, because any other self-aware, educated woman would go crazy living the life that Daisy...

• Word Count: 2520
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Jordan Baker is different from the other girls in the novel and most women of the 1920s. Jordan is portrayed as hard, independent, and confident. ... "she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round " (Fitzgerald 57) Nick notices that she bends the truth not only to get ahead in golf, but to get ahead in life. ... Jordan loves big parties. ... Jordan was the first to say something about Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. ...

• Word Count: 552
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. ... He lives an extravagant life but he is an unhappy person betrayed by the love of his life, Daisy. ... We are also introduced to Jordan Baker at that time. ... Soon after this, Nicks breaks up with Jordan. ... I had barely lied to anyone my whole life. ...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1622
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both movies have the similarity of showing Daisy's miserable life with Tom (Conner 2). ... Jordan Baker is a minor character that has a major impact on the plot which can be seen in viewing the differences of the two movies. In the 1974 movie, Lois Chiles plays Jordan who acts haughty just as she is in the novel, while the 2013 Jordan, played by Elizabeth Debicki, seems friendlier. Jordan has more speaking parts in the 1974 film than the 2013 movie. ... Without the affair, her only role is to narrate Gatsby's life. ...

• Word Count: 1007
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... 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. ... This quote shows that Jordan lies about important things to be able to stay bathing in wealth, w...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The "Hemingway Hero- is the character who plays the game of life, even though defeat is inevitable. ... He becomes fascinated with visiting South American, mainly because he feels he is not really living his life. ... They attend a bullfighting match where Pedro Romero first enters Brett's life. ... Nick has connections with people in East Egg; his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy. ... He befriends Nick once he finds out that Nick is related to Daisy; Daisy being the love of Gatsby's life. ...

• Word Count: 1759
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School