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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• 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