Thursday, September 12, 2013

In The Great Gatsby, where does Jordan Baker live—at the Plaza Hotel or at an apartment in Manhattan? I'm making a map project but I can't find...

Jordan Baker is one of the three main female characters in
F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel The Great Gatsby. In Chapter
Three of the novel, Jordan attends the party at Gatsby's to which Nick has been invited.
As he stands idly, Nick sees Jordan "looking with contemptuous interest" down into the
garden. Nick calls to her and she holds his hand "impersonally." They stroll around for
a while, then enter Gatsby's house where Jordan is invited to speak with him. While she
is gone, Nick asks for his hat. The library door opens and Jordan and Gatsby come out
together. Jordan's party are calling to her, but she lingers long enough to shake Nick's
hand. She tells Nick to come and see her; she is in the phone book under the name of
Mrs. Sigourney Howard, who is her aunt. "She was hurrying
off as she talked--her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at
the door." When Jordan says "the phone book," she implies the New
York
phone book, most likely Manhattan where
the wealthy live.

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