Jordan Baker is a radically rebellious female character in The Great Gatsby. She is a golfer and socialite who embodies a new 1920s woman: cool, independent, and uninterested in tradition. In contrast to Daisy’s desperate holding on to romance and propriety, Jordan is unemotional and assertive. Nick is drawn to her but also disturbed by her. He describes her as dishonest and “incurably dishonest,” relating a piece of gossip that she cheated at a round of golf once. Her lies are not driven by malice she seems to lie simply because she must in order to exist in a world built on appearance and convenience. Jordan is not interested in idealism or sentiment. She sees the world the way it is selfish, chaotic, and morally ambiguous. She’s really the most modern character in the novel. Where Gatsby dies chasing a dream, and Myrtle dies chasing money, Jordan simply drifts along, unscathed and unaffected. Fitzgerald uses Jordan to lament the cynicism of the war generation. She does not believe in love, the truth, or the American Dream. And yet she succeeds in the same system that destroys others. She’s a product of disillusionment during the Jazz Age an era when people lost their belief in traditional values and resorted to personal excess and rationalized charm. Finally, Nick breaks up with Jordan, accusing her of being careless. But Jordan is realistic, not careless. She knows the game. And in a book full of dreamers, perhaps realism is the most honest response of all.