Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker
The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker
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 relates to them. She serves as a link between the major
characters, staying from house to house, living off people between East Egg
(Tom and Daisy’s house) and West Egg (Gatsby’s and Nick’s houses). She is
rich enough to be comfortable among the residents of East Egg, but also
appears at Gatsby’s pa....
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