... mad and was extremely drunk. He then hit Myrtle and Nick left. Nick was then informed about Jay Gatsby, his neighbor, party and surprisingly he received an invitation. Nick sees Jordan and is happy that there's a familiar face that he likes. Nick hears all of these rumors about Gatsby and who he is. Gatsby later clarifies that on the way to ... nick how he got his wealth and makes it impossible not to believe with his sincere looks. Nick meets Gatsby's friend Meyer Wolfsheim. After that Jordan and nick go out and go to dinner together. They talk and have a small conversation. After a wh...

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... individuals represented in The Great Gatsby. The economic, political, and social realities of the 1920's are represented in the disposition of three characters in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby himself, Jordan Baker, and the narrator, Nick Carraway. America in the 1920's experienced a cultural and lifestyle revolution. Hudson Gevaert, author of the online Beginners Guide to The Great Gatsby, says that as ... of the "flappers," whom Gladysz describes as young women who dressed up in jewelry and feather boas, much like the characters featured in the play "Chicago." In The Great Gatsby, Jord...

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... parties. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg Long Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to a friend of theirs named Jordan Baker. Tom and Daisy hint to Nick that they want him to start a relationship with her, which he does. Later on, Tom travels to the valley of ashes ... did not have fun. As the summer progresses Nick finally get an invitation to one of Gatsby's legendary parties. There he sees Jordan and they meet Jay Gatsby. He is a handsome man with an English accent and calls everyone old sport. Gatsby asks top speak with ... that her alle...

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... with her (19). He finally ends the relationship over how her lip gets sweaty when playing tennis, which only adds to his list of dislikes as a character. Jordan comes along and he finds himself very attracted to her but in the end he thinks she is too close to Daisy and Tom so he breaks that off too ... ;a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair" (Fitzgerald 135) Nick learns about the Gatsby/Daisy story from Jordan who asks him to arrange a meeting and he agrees to it. This is where the events leading up to Gatsby's de...

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... 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, married woman ... physical things, and although she was of lower class herself, refused to show respect to anybody other than those of higher standing. Finally, Jordan Baker was a representation of the newer women of the 1920's. She showed a more independent approach to how she lived, but she was .....

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... they hold for a member of the opposite sex. Jake is in love with Brett and Nick is in love with Jordan Baker. Both these men become increasingly involved with the girl as the novel continues. However, Nick becomes romantically involved with Jordan, while Brett won't do anything more than kiss Jake. Brett's kiss is meaningless because she does not love Jake. Love ... is an important part of Nick and Jake's life. It is also an underlying them of both books. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's love for Daisy parallels Nick's love for Jordan. However, Nick's love is far less intense than Gatsby's...

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... 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: "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. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage " (pg. 57-58). This quote shows that Jordan lies about important things to be able to stay bathing ...

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... man who lives in West Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, a Gas Station owner. On this night Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy's and an acquaintance of Gatsby Nick's neighbor in West Egg, who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is invited to ... one of these parties and he and Jay soon become good friends. Both have things in common, one being they both know Daisy Buchanan. It is discovered through Daisy's friend Jordan that Jay and Daisy were once lovers, and that Jay has...

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... Nick's house is the enormous home of Mr. Gatsby. One evening, Nick has dinner with his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan. There he meets her husband Tom and their lady friend Jordan Baker. During the visit, Nick learns that Tom has a mistress named Myrtle Wilson, who owns a gas station with her husband. Later that week, Nick is invited to one of Gatsby ... 's famous parties where he than encounters Jordan Baker once again. They sit at a table together and find their tablemate to be Mr. Gatsby himself. Nick later learns that Gatsby and his cousin Daisy were once in love ... or someone she kn...

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... uninvolved in the sense that he is not willing to act upon what he feels are the faults of the other individuals around him. Some example is when he realizes Jordan baker is a liar and that this a defect held in her personality. "She was incurably dishonest." (63) Another time is when he truly discovers s the irresponsibility of Tom and Daisy. At ... all these conclusions about the characters he is still willing to tolerate the defects of these individuals. The turning point of his development occurs when he sees the reactions of Jordan and the Buchanans to Myrtle Wilson's death. At thi...

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... having others do what he should have done. For instance, inviting Daisy to have tea with him and Nick Carraway. What was worse, moreover, is the fact when he had Jordan Baker talk to Nick for him. He does not have the confidence to confront Nick and is too ashamed of himself to ask Nick to do such things. Jay Gatsby ... . It is all like a chain reaction. This begins with the affair of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and ended with the killing of Gatsby and Wilson's suicide action. Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, in my opinion, is not responsible for the death of Gatsby because the two characters...

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... who also was a World 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 was exposed to ... caused him to question his relationship with him. A rumour that explained why he was so rich was that he was German Kaiser Van Wilhelm's relative. Carraway later found out from Jordan, that Gatzby was once in love with Tom Buchanan's wife, Dai...

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... 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 wife, he goes crazy and kills Gatsby. In the end, two people wind up dead, and ... everyone winds up hurt in one way or another. Daisy and Tom remain together, Mr. Wilson is crazy, and Nick is hurt by Jordan who never loved him back. After all of this emotional suffering, Nick realizes that he learned a valuable lesson about life: Som...

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... rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it - This was the smile he gave Nick when he didn't recognize him. Finally we start to get a background when Nick asks Jordan where he is from. "Well, he told me he was and Oxford man."" Nick didn't believe this though. Gatsby is still very hidden to us as well as Nick. Gatsby ... is something odd about him. His past is unknown to anybody and he is very wealthy. At his parties, you never see him for long. He had a long conversation with Jordan Baker, which we will hear about later in the book. He is very extravagant and spontaneous, y...

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... his shop. He is only presently as a mean, arrogant man, so he is a flat character, and since he does not adjust his terrible ways he is as well a static character. Jordan Baker is Daisy's friend and Nick's girlfriend, though their relationship is not completely clear in the story. She is a golfer who is dishonest; Nick discovers that she cheated to win ... her first gold tournament. Since she is not the main focus of the story, she is flat for her only characteristic presently in the story is dishonestly. Jordan is also static for she does not change or develop from her only characteris...

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... acting in this manner. Evidence of Nick's character is found throughout his narration and also through the things people say to him. "' I hate careless people. That's why I like you.'" (63). Jordan Baker, a dishonest and careless woman herself, says this to Nick. This statement makes it obvious that Nick is a careful and wise person that many people, even ignorant ones, recognize as ... how Gatsby gains his wealth and looks more into the person Jay Gatsby really is. In doing this Nick easily sees that Gatsby is a better person than Daisy, Tom, and Jordan will ever be. Nick is both a rea...

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... by no means occur. Gatsby goes throughout numerous obstacles to gain the illusion of Daisy becoming aware of him. Some of these obstacles consist of moving to a residence near Daisy. Jordan and Nick speak of Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay""(Fitzgerald 83). Jay Gatsby's object of vision, Daisy, finally ... Nick states to Gatsby, "They"re a rotten crowd," I shouted, across the lawn. "You"re worth the whole damn bunch put together.""(Fitzgerald 162). After having mingled with the Buchanan's and Jordan Baker Nick comes to ...

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... relationship. Ultimately this turns out to be Tom's infidelity. Furthermore, the style of Fitzgerald's narration is remarkably descriptive and evocative. This can be seen when Nick Caraway describes Daisy and Jordan's appearance "..as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering..."Similar to poetry, his images are rich with colour and language ... while theor dresses fluttered like a butterfly- fickle and temporary. Throughout the novel, the composer uses language to paint a picture of his characters and, as in the case of Dai...

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... . His relationships with women are brief and fragmented. He has an affair or two with some women in the city. His relationship with Jordan Baker runs through much of the book. One never feels that Nick truly loved Jordan, but he liked and admired her a great deal. In the end they become very good friends because Nick is the sort of guy ... ...

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... advantages that you've had." Through the course of the novel, Nick develops into a more sophisticated observer, and therefore, when seeing the behavior of people like Tom, Daisy, and Jordan Baker, he finds himself judging others. Nick slowly begins to realize that he is losing his original moral values but the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrytle and Gatsby have ... ...

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... , because here Gatsby, like an onion, has been peeled back until the final layer. And beneath it, there is nothing. Daisy and Gatsby leave the hotel before Nick, Tom, and Jordan, something Tom allows to prove to Gatsby Daisy's faithfulness in her marriage. During the drive home, Tom stops to investigate a commotion at Wilson's garage. Mr. Wilson is Tom's mistress' husband ... ...

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... , because here Gatsby, like an onion, has been peeled back until the final layer. And beneath it, there is nothing. Daisy and Gatsby leave the hotel before Nick, Tom, and Jordan, something Tom allows to prove to Gatsby Daisy's faithfulness in her marriage. During the drive home, Tom stops to investigate a commotion at Wilson's garage. Mr. Wilson is Tom's mistress' husband ... ...

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... Gatsby a. Charm b. Wealth c. Sophistication d. Grace 3. Actual Characteristics a. Shallowness b. Sardonic c. Bored D. Tom Buchanan 1. Daisy's Husband 2. Characteristics a. Hypocritical 1. Having an affair yet expects other to uphold excellent moral standards. b. Bully c. Racist d. Sexist E. Jordan Baker 1. Characteristics 1. Cynical 2. Boyish 3. Self-centered 4. Dishonest 5. Habitual liar 2. Represents the "new woman- of the 20's a. Single b. Independent c. Sporty III. Conclusion Each of the characters and their traits represents the ... ...

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... 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 about Gatsby does not happen to Nick until much later, but the author decided to place it earlier ... ...

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... , when, for the first time, Nick Carraway attends Gatsby's party, he comes face to face with a character called "Owl Eyes- in the library. In here, Owl Eyes tells Nick and Jordan, who was also in the library, that all the books were real. Owl Eyes had thought Gatsby a swindler, but by assessing that the books were genuine, his belief was altered ... ...

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