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In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, we see that the character of Jordan Baker is quite different from other women of her time. She has beliefs and values that are radically different from everybody else’s. Through her actions, it is c ....

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... with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders 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 ...