The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker
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Jordan Baker has a very important function in the novel The Great
Gatsby as being a pro-golfer with a boyish, cynical, and self-centered
attitude. One of the purposes she serves is that she narrates the story
and also helps the reader to understand the other characters by how she
interacts and re ....
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.... as “incurably dishonest” (Fitzgerald 63), because of Nick’s remembrance
that she cheated at her first big golf tournament. This creates Jordan to
be a foil of Nick, because he tells himself, “I am one of the very few
honest people that I have ever known” (Fitzgerald 64). Jordan connects
Nick to Gatsby by bringing him to one of Gatsby’s parties with her, where
Gatsby introduces himself to Nick. Jordan leads a careless life, one
incident proving this is the scene where Jordan is dr ....
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