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Symbolism for feminism. Her masculine behavior and refusal to behave within her sexual expectations (e.g she is dishonest and brass and plays sport professionally) highlights the changing attitudes of the 1920's. The "Roaring Twenties" was an age of sexual liberation, especially in the form of flappers.Her strong attitude and dominance over Nick exert a behavior which feminists would aim to see as acceptable.However, Jordan's appearance is still physically female and she is very stylized as a seductive, sexual character. She is still very glamorous and composed which leads to the point that women were still seen as sexual objects.

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Jordan’s narration is definitely distinct from Nick’s. Her diction is a bit sharper and she has more blatantly judgmental asides, calling Daisy “drunk as a monkey” (4.136). She also uses more vivid imagery: the red, white, and blue banners on the houses flapping “tut-tut-tut-tut” in a “disapproving way” (4.129), Gatsby’s letter to Daisy coming apart “like snow” in the bath (4.141), etc. Her choice of words is a pretty good insight into her character and how sharply observant she is!

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Jordan is stylist as a very masculine character, Her profession, behavior and name all extend this, as does her dominance over her relationship with Nick. Jordan tends to call the shots and asserts control over Nick. She is the one who invokes the relationship and steers Nick in different directions.

However, at the end of the novel Nick ends the relationship ultimately putting her in her place as a female. This is an assertion of dominance and power and underlines the strict divisions of gender.

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"You threw me over on the telephone. I don't give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while."

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"You threw me over on the telephone. I don't give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while."

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Jordan doesn’t frequently showcase her emotions or show much vulnerability, so this moment is striking because we see that she did really care for Nick to at least some extent. Notice that she couches her confession with a pretty sassy remark (“I don’t give a damn about you now”) which feels hollow when you realize that being “thrown over” by Nick made her feel dizzy – sad, surprised, shaken – for a while.

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Jordan s role is one as a spreader of gossip, she develops the mystery of Gatsby and adds to his image. She often stands as an observer, secretly collecting information she can use to her advantage. Although Jordan is neither presented nice or nasty her status as upper class is reinforced by her attitude. She is a cheater and shamelessly dishonest, she's not above manipulating her profession to get what she wants. Similar with the car her irresponsible, selfish, upper class traits are revealed with her refusal to drive carefully.

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Assimilates her lexis to assert dominance

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Represents the independence of women

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Curious, passive, observer, gossiper, careless, reckless, cheater, irresponsible, seductive, masculine, dishonest

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We also see Jordan as someone who carefully calculates risks – both in driving and in relationships. This is why she brings up her car accident analogy again at the end of the book when she and Nick break up – Nick was, in fact, a “bad driver” as well, and she was surprised that she read him wrong.

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“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

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“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

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This is an early example of Jordan’s unexpectedly clever observations – throughout the novel she reveals a quick wit and keen eye for detail in social situations. This comment also sets the stage for the novel’s chief affair between Daisy and Gatsby, and how at the small party in Chapter 7 their secrets come out to disastrous effect.

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contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan
contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan
Jordan is blond and very athletic, physical, tan, and angular, while Daisy is dark-haired and pale with a musical voice and more delicate figure. Interestingly enough most film adaptations feature a dark-haired Jordan and a blonde Daisy!

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this is her :/
 

Jordan Baker
Jordan Baker - Daisy's friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered.

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opinions very judgmental but very truthful 

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contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan
contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan
Jordan is blond and very athletic, physical, tan, and angular, while Daisy is dark-haired and pale with a musical voice and more delicate figure. Interestingly enough most film adaptations feature a dark-haired Jordan and a blonde Daisy!

this is her :/
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Jordan Baker
Jordan Baker - Daisy's friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered.

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opinions very judgmental but very truthful 

uN BOTHERED BY nICK'S PRESCENCE IN THE OPENING 
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contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan

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contrasting physical appearances between daisy and jordan

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Jordan is blond and very athletic, physical, tan, and angular, while Daisy is dark-haired and pale with a musical voice and more delicate figure. Interestingly enough most film adaptations feature a dark-haired Jordan and a blonde Daisy!

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Jordan Baker - Daisy's friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered.

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opinions very judgmental but very truthful

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uN BOTHERED BY nICK'S PRESCENCE IN THE OPENING 

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Bends the truth to create her own reality although she is a realist 

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Bends the truth to create her own reality although she is a realist 

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her lexis is short, blunt and abrupt. she uses masculine language. (jennifer coates language theorist)

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Lives in reality that's why she's not married 

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Lives in reality that's why she's not married 

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Judgemental

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Defined by her lack of marital status

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is the closest we’ve seen the proudly unflappable Jordan come to admitting an actual, personal, emotional response to a situation. She also criticizes Nick for mischaracterizing himself as honest and straightforward when he dispatched her pretty coldly over the phone. In short, we can tell she has definitely been thinking their short relationship over and was shocked and hurt by how abruptly things ended.

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''she was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. -- Quite boyish

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From her very first appearance in the novel, Jordan Baker strikes Nick as mysterious, at once aloof and alluring. Jordan belongs to the upper crust of society. Although she moved to the east coast from somewhere in the Midwest, she has quickly risen among the social ranks to become a famous golfer—a sport played mainly among the wealthy. Yet Jordan’s rise to social prominence and affluence is founded on lies. Not only did she cheat to win her first major golf tournament, but she’s also incurably dishonest. According to Nick, Jordan constantly bends the truth in order to keep the world at a distance and protect herself from its cruelty. Nick senses Jordan’s aloof yet alluring nature when he initially encounters her lounging on a couch with Daisy in Chapter 1. He writes: “She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.” Here Jordan appears distant, statuesque, and beautiful, even regal with her chin tilted into the air. Yet Nick’s description also lends her appearance an air of fragility, as if she’s posing.

Jordan’s cynical and self-centered nature marks her as one of the “new women” of the Roaring Twenties. Such new women were called “flappers,” and they became famous for flouting conventional standards of female behavior. Flappers distinguished themselves physically by bobbing their hair, dressing in short skirts, and wearing a lot of makeup. They also listened to jazz music, smoked cigarettes, openly drank alcohol, and drove cars. Most scandalous of all, flappers were known for their casual attitudes toward sexuality. Jordan’s presence in the novel draws attention to the social and political turbulence of the Jazz Age. In this sense, Jordan calls forth the larger social and historical background against which the tragic events of the novel unfold. Unlike Daisy, who leads a conventional life of marriage and children and doesn’t work (or even drink alcohol), Jordan represents a new path for women. Whereas Daisy is the object of men’s fantasy and idealism, Jordan exhibits a hard-hearted pragmatism that, for Nick at least, links her more forcefully to the real world.

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'There was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.'

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'There was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.'

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Nick makes this comparison between Jordan and Daisy in Chapter 7, just as the group leaves for the suburbs after the crisis in New York. Nick reflects on turning 30 years old, and even though he predicts that “a decade of loneliness” lies ahead, he reminds himself that Jordan—an actual woman—is sitting next to him. Nick finds this thought calming. In contrast to Daisy, who lives on illusions (and who is also the object of Gatsby’s idealism), Jordan lives in reality. Thus, despite being aloof, her impersonal nature comes to seem very practical.

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'Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was 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 be at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body'

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'Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was 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 be at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body'

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In Chapter 3, Nick offers his personal take on Jordan’s psychology. Specifically, he describes her superiority complex, and the way she keeps away from “clever, shrewd men” so that she can remain in a superior position. Nick posits that Jordan constantly tells lies in order to maintain an advantage over others. Whatever advantage Jordan has is linked to her beauty and fame, and Nick indicates that she uses this advantage both to satisfy her own desires and soothe her insecurities.

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Jennifer Coates

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'She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she’d take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps.'

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'She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she’d take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps.'

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Nick writes this description of Jordan in Chapter 3, during Gatsby’s party. Jordan is clearly more of a social butterfly than Nick, and she seems to be stringing him along. But her behavior in this situation does not seem to surprise or phase Nick, who has always found her aloof and a bit cold since first meeting her at the Buchanan residence. Yet Nick continues to feel drawn in by Jordan, whose aloofness in this moment comes with a vague “promise that she’d take care of [him] in a minute.”

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Jordan represents one of the 'new women' of the 1920's , cynical, boyish and self-centered.

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she helps connect nick to gatsby in chapter 3 and also helps connect gatsby and daisy.

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cheater!!! corruption of the ruling class

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claims to be a new woman unlike daisy but eventually settles and marries

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represents independence of strong women at the start