Jordan Baker

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Jordan Baker is a cynical, self-centered professional golfer and socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, known for her modern attitudes, moral ambiguity, and romantic involvement with Nick Carraway.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf female character
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn The Great Gatsby
appearsInMedium novel
associatedWithTheme Roaring Twenties
surface form: Jazz Age

modern woman
moral decay
social class
basedOn Edith Cummings
closeTo Daisy Buchanan
createdBy F. Scott Fitzgerald
createdInYear 1925
firstAppearance The Great Gatsby
gender female
hasMoralCharacteristic morally ambiguous
hasPersonalityTrait aloof
cool
cynical
detached
dishonest
self-centered
hasRelationshipDynamic ambivalent with Nick Carraway
involvedIn golf cheating scandal
knownFor careless driving
independence
modern attitudes
language English (original text)
literaryEra Jazz Age literature
narrativeRole foil to Nick Carraway
love interest of Nick Carraway
representative of flapper era
nationality American
occupation professional golfer
socialite
portrayedAs athletic
emotionally detached
physically slender
socially sophisticated
romanticRelationshipWith Nick Carraway
setting Long Island
New York City
surface form: New York
socialCircle East Egg
surface form: East Egg society

West Egg
surface form: West Egg society
symbolizes modernity
moral carelessness
new woman of the 1920s
timePeriod 1920s

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Myrtle Wilson appearsAlongside Jordan Baker
East Egg associatedWith Jordan Baker
The Great Gatsby (opera) character Jordan Baker
this entity surface form: Jordan Baker – Ruth Hussey
Nick Carraway describesCharacter Jordan Baker
Nick Carraway friendOf Jordan Baker
Daisy Buchanan hasSibling Jordan Baker
this entity surface form: Jordan Baker (close friend, sometimes treated as quasi-sisterly companion)
The Great Gatsby mainCharacter Jordan Baker