Miss Baker the Skeptic

Women's ideals changed a lot during the 1920s. They were gaining new rights, taking up new outlooks on life, even changing the way they dressed. Often, outlooks on life from women were somewhat skeptical, as if their new rights were going to come back and bite them. I think Jordan is a good example of a woman in the 1920s because she is described as "this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism." (p. 79) As Nick Carraway says, "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." (p. 79)