Jordan is aware that her views of perfection are envied by both men and women of the era who fail to achieve a substantial life. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald characterizes Jordan Baker as a realist, whose life ultimately falls into place and achieves what people strive for. Nevertheless, Jordan manifested the conventional habits of the …show more content…
The unsettling lengths that Myrtle Wilson would go through to experience a taste of the upper class, unquestionably displays her anguish for financial and economic standing. Jordan Baker’s allusion for self worth and control is used as a shield to protect her frail little self from the outside World. Her devious ways of succeeding are dominated by fortifying her rank as a socialite. Daisy Buchanan’s plea for a change in lifestyle, remotely declines when faced with a dilemma that might interfere with the two things she cares about most; wealth and power. The three female figures; Myrtle, Jordan and Daisy fabricated by F. Scott Fitzgerald, truly signifies the lust for wealth and power resulting from the era of the