In the first chapter, we meet Nick Carraway. Nick is the narrator of the story and claims to be the author. He is in the bond business and lives next to Gatsby who he sees for the first time. Nick goes to a dinner on the East Egg with his cousin Daisy, her husband Tom, and their friend Jordan Baker. During the dinner Nick learns Tom has a secret lover.
Jordan Baker
"She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it- indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in."
Miss Baker is good looking, a golfer, and rich.
Miss Baker is quiet, rich, and sophisticated. However rich and sophisticated she may be, there seems to be something missing. She seems to have an emptiness in her soul. Miss Baker could be used to show the type of people who live on the East Egg.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
-This is very true and applicable to all of our lives. We judge and form opinions on people everyday before we even get the chance to know them and what they've gone through. Not everyone will be as privileged as you may have been. Privileged does not have to do with just money. Someone could have had a better community for support than another. This quote stood out to me because even though it is how he says he lives his life non-judgmentally he contradicts himself by saing he has more "fundamental decencies."
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