... different roles of women presented in this novel. Daisy plays the role of an upper class woman which every woman in the 1920's wanted to be, Jordan is a high-middle class woman who analyzed the role of a flapper girl and dishonesty, and Myrtle represents the low class and plays the role of ... Daisy is everything that Gatsby lives for and he has addresses his whole life to her. She is responsible for Gatsby's fate when George Wilson murders him. Furthermore, Jordan is a high-middle class woman who analyzes the role of a flapper girl and dishonesty. A flapper girl was the "new woman" of ...

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... 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. The first revelation of the movie comes when Jordan informs Nick that Tom is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle (and her ... 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 i...

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... different social positions, and all three have different attitudes towards life and their position in society. Daisy, who is rich and dependent on men; Jordan, a feminist, and represents the new movements and attitudes of women of the Jazz Age, and Myrtle, who represents the lower class of society. ... of herself, as even though she is a manipulator, she also is being manipulated, by both, her own believes and values and by societies attitudes. Jordan is the other female character represented by Fitzgerald in the book. She is cynical, boyish, and self-centered. She is beautiful but also ...

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... The "foul dust" mentioned throughout the novel serves to corrupt everything it encounters. It is this foul dust that represents the lives of Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. After all, they are all immoral characters. A word such as dust successfully gives off a negative ambiance, but for Nick to go the step further ... with them. Like most people, Nick the character chose to neglect the faults of his good-old friend Tom, his cousin Daisy, and his lover Jordan. To him, it was more important to fit in with these rich, sophisticated people than to risk his friendship with them by pointing out their ...

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... her husband Tom Buchannan, because of 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 ... abuses the men in her life in an emotional way, and needs security more than love, Myrtle mistreats her husband, and is motivated by money, and Jordan lies to men, and needs acknowledgement for her golfing. Women often treat the men in their lives in many different ways. The women in the novel all ... ...

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... in particular the love of his former partner, Daisy Buchanan. As the story unfolds, it becomes easily apparent that Fitzgerald portrays women in a negative fashion. In particular, Fitzgerald uses Daisy, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson to illustrate the disapproving qualities of carelessness, selfishness, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before ... feelings. Even Osborn 2 after his death, "Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower" (183). Fitzgerald presents Daisy as a girl who has everything, yet still cannot see beyond w...

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... not contain any real substance. Moon glistening(AbP), Nick walks around at Gatsby's first party "with Jordan's golden arm resting in [his]"(33). The diction of "golden arm" to describe Jordan demonstrates her true old money ways as even she gives off a golden hue. As a professional golfer, ... ; also represents her success and riches from being an esteemed athlete. Fitzgerald uses this diction to repeat the description of old money being gold, as Jordan is a prime example of old money because of her inherited wealth and acceptance into the old money social class (AdvSC). Later in the nov...

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... Myrtle is only in love with the money rather than Tom. In order to discover resemblances and differences of other characters, one must look at the values, attitudes, and appearances. 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. This causes the 2013 adaption to leave out ...

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... 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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... 1920's the view on women began to change. Before, men were thought to be more superior to women. However in F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby the three main characters, Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle, are modern women. Although modern, they are portrayed as dishonest and unflattering. In The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as shallow, ditzy, and foolish. Daisy cares about ... . She loves getting attention from men, but is not interested in a relationship. When she is with Nick she feels like she can be herself and talk to him about anything. Jordan loves big parties. "And I like...

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... that are no different than Tom, defined by their addictions rather than by whom they are. Another character in the Great Gatsby that makes it relevant to modern day is Jordan Baker. She is a sign of things to come for women. In the new millennium a woman of her independence would not be an uncommon thing. But compared to her peers in ... the novel, Jordan truly is a strong woman. In the twenties it was rare to find a woman that would have the means to support herself. While Jordan and Daisy are friends, they are quite different. While we are only presented with weak women in Daisy and ....

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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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... careless society. His spectacles represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland. As seen in the attire of both Daisy and Jordan, white is used to improve their pure appearances. When Nick first sees Daisy and Jordan, they are both dressed in white, trying to appear pure. As Nick Learns more about Daisy and ... Jordan, their dresses turn yellow and gold, symbolizing their impurity and tasteless character. Another important aspect of the novel is the portrayal of women. Women in ... getting jobs, and wearing unrefined and risqué clothing, women went a...

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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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... of the American Dream were for the good, people became so focused on pursuing wealth, that many became corrupted. In the novel, Tom, Daisy and Jordan were chief examples of the corruption of the American Dream. Jordan cheated in her golf, to obtain wealth and popularity, Tom and Daisy became morally irresponsible and were unfaithful to one another, and even Gatsby's business ... was an illustration of their careless and indulgent lives; for example, Nick writes " they conducted themselves according to the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park" (pg 43). Also Jordan's carel...

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... 28, further expresses the pure nature of the couple's exchanges. Fitzgerald uses the colours silver and white almost exclusively to describe Daisy and Jordan, for example "They were both white, and their dresses were rippling" and "Daisy and Jordan lay... like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses". Despite these symbolic colours of purity being associated with these characters the reader ... discovers that they are not as they appear, Daisy choosing to have a short affair with Gatsby even though she is married to Tom Buchanan, and Jordan being accused of cheating at her fi...

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... and obnoxious because they come from a society that lacks humility and an appreciation for material objects that are purchased from real, honest work. When Jordan Baker and Nick are driving together at one point in the novel, Jordan almost hits another car and drives with recklessness. Nick then says to her: You're a rotten driver..you ought to be more careful. to ... which Jordan replies: Other people are. They'll keep out of my way. It takes two to make an accident. (63). This small interaction really shows the significance of the culture they ... ...

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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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... himself from mistaking the glittering appearance for the true state of things. The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. It is not accidental, for example, that Daisy and Jordan, when they are introduced to the reader in the first scene of the novel, are dressed in white. In this scene, in which almost all of the color symbols are ... after a short flight around the house." White traditionally symbolizes purity, and there is no doubt that Fitzgerald wants to underscore the ironic disparity between the ostensible purity of Daisy and Jordan and their actual corruption. But Fit...

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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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... getting an education at Yale, Nick begins 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 and Myrtle at their ... central passion, to reclaim Daisy who he won and then lost while he was a board during the war. To reach his goal he obtains the help of both Nick and Jordan who both know Daisy. A meeting is arranged and soon Daisy is again Gatsby's mis...

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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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