The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 driving Nick. Nick tells her, “You’re a rotten driver, either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn’t to drive at all” (Fitzgerald 63), Jordan respo ....