Part one of term paper
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 ...

Part two of term paper
... meet each other, so in a way Jordan pushes the story along giving us a better plot. As being Nick Carraway’s girlfriend during the summer of 1922, Jordan helps the reader to learn more about Nick because he lets his true self out to her. Although Nick still liked Jordan regardless, he describes her as “incurably dishonest” (Fitzgerald 63), because of Nick’s remembrance that she cheated at her first big golf tournament. This creates Jordan to be a foil of Nick, because he tells himse ...