In The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker is one of the main characters, she plays a pivotal point within the book. Jordan is the go-between for Nick or the lower class to the rich and their lavish lifestyle everyone wishes to achieve. She is the young women who embodies the American Dream, she is beautiful, rich, successful, and high in the social class. F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, utilizes the motif of the valley of ashes in order to show Jordan’s lack of contact with the Valley to convey how people who value their status within society over everything else, tend to take advantage of others below them at their own convince, which lead those people to only truly care about themselves. Jordan lack of contact with the Valley of ashes sows
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Jordan strings Nick around the entire summer, forcing Nick to endure strange and unnecessary circumstances. Jordan decided Nick is no longer a suitable man to be with and decided to leave him after Gatsby's death. Jordan finally told Nick she was “engaged to another man” already (Fitzgerald 99). Jordan never truly cared for Nick, because she moved on so quickly from being with him. If Jordan had any kind of feelings towards Nick it is not shown through her actions, because after they stopped seeing each other she already had “another man” only after a month or so. Jordan has no real emotional attachment to anyone she is with, because she can move on from them within days or weeks. In Mr. Jacqueline Lance fins Miss Baker is a reckless driver, it shows how she is as a person, because she drives recklessly and she is very reckless. Although she is reckless she is a driver without care for anyone else on the road, she would not care if she hit someone or not. She “operates a car as she approaches life, unreliably and without emotion ( Lance 5). Jordan lives her life “without emotion” because she doesn't care about anyone other than herself. Jordan is very “reliably” because she is self centered, exemplified through Jordan having “another man” only weeks
Jordan strings Nick around the entire summer, forcing Nick to endure strange and unnecessary circumstances. Jordan decided Nick is no longer a suitable man to be with and decided to leave him after Gatsby's death. Jordan finally told Nick she was “engaged to another man” already (Fitzgerald 99). Jordan never truly cared for Nick, because she moved on so quickly from being with him. If Jordan had any kind of feelings towards Nick it is not shown through her actions, because after they stopped seeing each other she already had “another man” only after a month or so. Jordan has no real emotional attachment to anyone she is with, because she can move on from them within days or weeks. In Mr. Jacqueline Lance fins Miss Baker is a reckless driver, it shows how she is as a person, because she drives recklessly and she is very reckless. Although she is reckless she is a driver without care for anyone else on the road, she would not care if she hit someone or not. She “operates a car as she approaches life, unreliably and without emotion ( Lance 5). Jordan lives her life “without emotion” because she doesn't care about anyone other than herself. Jordan is very “reliably” because she is self centered, exemplified through Jordan having “another man” only weeks