Jordan Baker

Jordan Baker is a celebrated amateur golfer and a fixture in the wealthy Long Island social scene, particularly among the East Egg set where she maintains close friendship with Daisy Buchanan. Her professional golfing career and independent means make her unusually autonomous for a young woman of her time, and she moves through her world with the ease of someone who has never had to question her place in it. Witty and observant, Jordan presents herself as honest and direct, though she often reveals a capacity for carelessness with other people's feelings and circumstances. She becomes romantically involved with Nick Carraway, drawn to his apparent sincerity, but their relationship remains marked by mutual misunderstanding and the fundamental superficiality of their social sphere. Jordan's golf, her beauty, and her social position are the pillars of her identity, and she guards her autonomy fiercely while remaining dependent on the moneyed world that sustains her lifestyle. She is both a product of her era's new freedoms for women and a captive of its moral indifference.