Inside the story
Meet Jordan Baker
Jordan Baker is a cool, self-assured professional golfer and Daisy Buchanan’s longtime friend, moving through the same wealthy, leisured world. Wry, incurably casual, and a little dishonest, she spends the summer alongside Nick Carraway as a knowing observer of the people around her.
On the page
A slender, small-breasted young woman with an erect, athletic carriage, which she accentuates by throwing her shoulders back like a young cadet. She has warm light-brown skin, dark brown eyes, and glossy black hair set in short finger-waves. Her face is charming and faintly discontented, with a cool, contemptuous poise. She wears a crisp white sleeveless tennis dress and a single strand of pearls.
