Jordan Baker, Daisy's friend, is portrayed by Fitzgerald as a masculine figure. One of the first things we find out about this woman is the fact that she is a professional golf player. Nowadays, we don't find anything unusual about this, but, in the twenties, it was quite unusual to find a woman playing golf. When we first meet this character, she is described as a "slender, small breasted girl with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoul

ders like a young cadet." Small breasts are usually symbolic of a masculine figure, as would being a "young cadet." Later on, we see her reading the Saturday Evening Post, and turning the pages with a "flutter of slender muscles in her arms." Reading a newspaper would be an unlikely action of a woman of that time, and even her muscles reveal her masculine features. Fitzgerald's masculine depiction of Miss Baker in this fashion shows the reader the coming of a self sufficient woman into our times.

In addition to Jordan's physical features, her beliefs and values show that she is far from a typical woman of the time. At her first big golf tournament, there had been speculation concerning Jordan moving her ball from a bad lie, indicating her defiance of the rules of the game as well as her habits of being dishonest and being a cheater. Many women of this time would not find the need to cheat and be dishone

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