Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Jordan Baker
- ACTIONS
- 'Her chin was raised a
little, as if she were
balancing something
on it which was quite
likely to fall.' (p. 7)
- 'Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with
polite, reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming,
discontented face.' (p. 9)
- 'sitting down at the table as if she
were getting into bed' (p. 10)
- 'Miss Baker leaned forward,
unashamed, trying to hear.' (p. 12)
- 'She held my hand impersonally, as
a promise that she'd take care of
me in a minute.' (p. 28)
- 'If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes, she
gave no hint of it.' (p. 7)
- 'An erect carriage, which she
accentuated by throwing her body
backward like a young cadet.' (p. 9)
- 'her body asserted itself with a
restless movement of her knee.'
(p. 14)
- 'sitting up very straight on a straight chair' (p. 48)
- DIALOGUE
- "She might have the decency not to
telephone him at dinner time." (p. 12)
- there is nothing decent
about having an affair, but
to Jordan, not phoning at
dinner would make it
acceptable
- "Let's get out... This is much too polite for me." (p. 30)
- "I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties, there isn't any privacy." (p. 33)
- RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER CHARACTERS
- Nick
- 'Almost any exhibition of
complete self-sufficiency draws
a stunned tribute from me.' (p.
8)
- 'I knew now why her face was familiar -
its pleasing contemptous expression had
looked out at me from many
rotogravure pictures of the sporting life
at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm
Beach. I had heard some story of her
too, a critical, unpleasant story, but
what it was I had forgotten long ago.' (p.
14)
- "Please come and see me... Phone book...
Under the name of Mrs Sigourney
Howard... My aunt..." (p. 35)
- "I happened to find out that you're taking Miss Baker to tea." (p. 43)
- 'I drew up the girl beside me, tightening
my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth
smiled, and so I drew up up again closer,
this time to my face.' (p. 52)
- comments that she is dishonest
- cheating on golf tournament
- love interest
- Daisy and Tom
- she is staying with
them over the
summer, old family
friends
- Daisy
- "I was her bridesmaid. I came into her room
half an hour before the bridal dinner, and
found her lying on her bed as lovely as the
June night in her flowered dress - and as
drunk as a monkey." (p. 49)
- Gatsby
- "Miss Baker?" he enquired. "I beg
your pardon, but Mr Gatsby would
like to speak to you alone." (p. 33)
- "Do you mean you're in love with
Miss Baker?" / "No, old sport, I'm
not. But Miss Baker has kindly
consented to speak to you about
this matter." (p. 43)