Jordan Baker In The Great Gatsby

The 1920’s was a time of great growth for women in America. Women began to have short haircuts, wear shorter dresses, and smoke cigarettes. These were practically unheard of in the years before for women. They were liberated and installed with a sense of confidence, especially from their newfound suffrage. This also brought along criticism towards the new woman of the 1920s. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the female characters Jordan, Myrtle, and Daisy are seen in a negative way through their actions and color symbolism.
In the story, Jordan Baker is depicted as having gray eyes. This represents one of her biggest faults: her lack of compassion for others. This depiction is shown in the quote that says, “Her gray sun-strained
At the beginning, she is characterized by white and being innocent. She is also characterized by her mysterious green light. Later in the story the meaning of her green light is revealed and her character changes. This change is portrayed in the book when Gatsby and Nick are having a conversation and Nick has this realization: “‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it” (Fitzgerald 108). Her voice of money is representative of how in actuality everything she does is driven by money. Her life revolves around it and it also keeps her from siding with Gatsby during Tom and Gatsby’s argument. Gatsby is a risk but Tom comes with the promise of eternal wealth. Gatsby’s worship of Daisy’s green light before realizing this is ironic because her greed is what ultimately ended their short-lived affair. This greed is what puts Daisy under the umbrella of being a woman of the new age. During the 1920’s, America was a very wealthy society. People began to spend more money on luxuries and less money on necessities. Daisy has let this new attitude overtake herself and her personality. This is Daisy’s biggest flaw and is connected to the character of women at the
The narrative implications here are gigantic: if Tom knows that Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car when he sends Wilson to Gatsby’s house, then Tom kills Gatsby as clearly as if he pulled the trigger himself. If he does not know, then Daisy is equally complicit in Gatsby’s death” (5).
Lehan is showing that the story shifts from a love story between Daisy and Gatsby to a story of betrayal between them. This betrayal goes far enough to even end Gatsby’s life. Although no one can determine the exact nature of Daisy and Tom’s conversation, this word suggests that Daisy has changed sides. This changing of sides represents her lack of responsibility and how she is content with letting Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle’s death and not even saying goodbye before she flees with Tom. She relies on her money to fix everything and hide her past troubles.
The characters of Jordan, Myrtle, and Daisy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are all depicted as having negative characteristics. For example, Jordan is self-centered, Myrtle is greedy and egotistical, and Daisy is betraying and also greedy. The women in The Great Gatsby are portrayed as women of the new age, but the characteristics that give them this label are all negative. Meaning that this new type of women is vicious and rebellious and inconsiderate, in the eyes of