How Does Jordan Baker Characterize In The Great Gatsby

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Nick describes himself as a young man with a wandering mind. He was told from an early age by his father, “whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (5). This advice stuck with Nick into adulthood and he has reserved his judgements ever since.
Nick traveled East because he wanted the world to be in uniform. He had hoped that the move would provide him with a pleasant change to begin his work in bonds.
Nick described Tom as an athletic man who is exceptional when it comes to football. He was a football player at New Haven for a time. Tom is twenty one years old and is married to Daisy.
Jordan Baker is a friend of Daisy’s. She appears to be unconcerned with the world around her and does not notice Nick when
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He told him that his family was all dead and that he was educated at Oxford because his ancestors had learned there.
Gatsby told Nick that Meyer was a gambler and that he had fixed the world series back in 1919. This story shocked Nick as fixing the world series had never occurred to him.
Daisy was hysterical and drunk. She decided that she would not marry Tom and walked around saying she had changed her mind. The next day she married Tom without a word about the previous day.
Gatsby wants to be reconnected with Daisy. He hasn't seen her in a couple of years and has not stopped thinking about her since they parted. He was unsure of whether to ask Nick to invite her to tea because he has heard that Nick was a friend of Tom’s and worried that Tom might catch wind of the get together.
Tom ran into a wagon in Santa Barbara. He was with another girl who broke her arm in the accident and was advertised in the papers.
Meyer Wolfsheim is a questionable character that has defied the law before. The fact that Gatsby knows Meyer well is unsettling and suggests that Gatsby was or still is involved in illegal underground

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