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. ... Jordan Baker does not have a husband in her life. ... On the other hand, Jordan Baker was an independent girl. ... In conclusion, the three women, Myrtle, Daisy, and Jordan seemed to want much of the same thing out of life. ... Jordan seemed disinterested in having any man in her life. ...

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Throughout the movie, Nick visits Tom and Daisy periodically, and on one of those visits is introduced to Jordan Baker, a woman that he begins a romantic relationship with. ... While there he bumps into Jordan Baker, and they meet Gatsby for the first time. ... 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 wealthy on the East Coast. ... While working for a millionaire, he purposed to...

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Some example is when he realizes Jordan baker is a liar and that this a defect held in her personality. ... The turning point of his development occurs when he sees the reactions of Jordan and the Buchanans to Myrtle Wilson's death. ... Nick also develops as he studies the better aspects of Gatsby's life as well. ... Nick also develops when it comes to the idea with his relationship with Jordan baker. ... One is a developing young man learning through life and figuring out what he wants to become and the other is a man who's life was thrown away on a corrupted dream of greed and...

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From Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Nick learns that Tom is unfaithful and Daisy is aware of his habits. ... Caught up in the bitterness of the Buchanans" turmoil, Nick finds himself immediately trapped as well in Gatsby's turbulent life. ... To reach his goal he obtains the help of both Nick and Jordan who both know Daisy. ... In a hot hotel room in New York City Gatsby demands, in the presence of Tom, Daisy, Nick, and Jordan that Daisy leave her husband and admit that she has never loved him. ... Gatsby intends to take full responsibly for Myrtle's death but, before he can he is...

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There are those who are responsible for the ending of his life. ... Not only he ruined his own life, he also jeopardized the Buchanan's marriage, even though Tom himself is having an affair. ... What was worse, moreover, is the fact when he had Jordan Baker talk to Nick for him. ... Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, in my opinion, is not responsible for the death of Gatsby because the two characters just happened to be present and are dragged, although by choice, to be involved with this entire tragedy. ...

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Another character in the Great Gatsby that makes it relevant to modern day is Jordan Baker. ... But compared to her peers in the novel, Jordan truly is a strong woman. ... While Jordan and Daisy are friends, they are quite different. ... On this level Jordan could be looked at as the most relevant character in the novel. ... Through crime and inheritance the least worthy people live a lavish life. ...

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Finally we start to get a background when Nick asks Jordan where he is from. ... He had a long conversation with Jordan Baker, which we will hear about later in the book. ... This signifies the mysteriousness around him and keeps him and his life in the shadows. ...

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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. ...

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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. ... 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 later found out from Jordan, that Gatzby was once in love with Tom Buchanan's wife, Daisy. ... The novel also proved to be a fitting reflection of some minute aspects of American life at the quarter of the century. ... Racism and sexism, which were also a integral parts of life back then were also included in the no...

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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. ... 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. ... It has consumed his life so much that he spent five years leading an illegal life just because of her. ...

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In contrast the women in the novel, Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker, are portrayed as angelic. ... Nick repeatedly uses words that give Daisy and Jordan immortal status. ... 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] vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby "nothing- (157). ... Gatsby who spend his entire life trying to win Daisy back and she just leaves him sitting there as she returns to the rich life she has become so attached to. ...

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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...

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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. ... Daisy frequently reminds us that love is exactly what you make of it, though I feel that she has made a mockery of the love in her own life. ... This is wrong and Daisy spends her entire adult life in misery buying things that are supposed to give her happiness but lead her to ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The characters have their colored pairs: Tom Buchanan matches the power of red; Jordan Baker has yellow hair; Daisy Buchanan, as her name might indicate, has a yellow center and white on the outside, and Jay Gatsby covers himself in blue. ... The life that Dan Cody leads would pass on to Gatsby through this coat "and not through Dan Cody's money because Cody's family would take it all when he died. ... Despite the prominence that blue plays in Gatsby's life, the introduction to the color is actually on the billboard of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg whose eyes "are blue and gigant...

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This makes it easy for him to go through life without needlessly offending people. ... Jordan Baker, a dishonest and careless woman herself, says this to Nick. ... In doing this Nick easily sees that Gatsby is a better person than Daisy, Tom, and Jordan will ever be. ... He does not waste his life dreaming of idealistic aspirations that will never live up to his expectations. ...

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Also joining them was Gatsby and Jordan Baker, who is a friend of Daisy as well as Nick's lover. ... Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby's car, and Daisy and Gatsby rides together in Tom's car. ... His love for Daisy was so strong that it cost him his life. ... A professor would choose this novel to show their students how social stratification exists in our everyday life. ...

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It appears to me that they way of life in West Egg, is to base a lot on your life socially, to know the right people, and to be at the right social events. ... The main characters consist of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and George Wilson. ... Gatsby is a troubled young man whose aim in life was to become rich and win back Daisy. ... I think the author is trying to tell us to not dwell on the past, and to just live life for today. ... I found this story very ironic, Gatsby spent his whole life getting ready for winning Daisy back, and in the end h...

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The American Dream is an idea that has existed throughout the United States" history. Before the United States of America was established, immigrants from all over Western Europe stormed to America. Some immigrants came to help expand their country's empire, some were explorers searching for new a...

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