What If The Characters From The Great Gatsby Had Business Cards?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of my favorite books. I have read the novel so many times that I am now familiar with all the main characters. I’m a graphic designer and decided it would be interesting to create business cards for the four main characters: Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jordan Baker. Each business card is designed with the time period in mind (1920’s) and reflects each personality well.
Jay Gatsby — The protagonist, is a newly wealthy Midwesterner-turned-Easterner who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved and, eventually, to death.
Daisy Buchanan — Beautiful and mesmerizing, Daisy is the apex of sociability. Her privileged upbringing in Louisville has conditioned her to a particular lifestyle, which Tom, her husband, is able to provide her. She enraptures men, especially Gatsby, with her diaphanous nature and sultry voice. She is the object of Gatsby’s desire, for good or ill, and represents women of an elite social class. She is dainty and seen as “pure” like a daisy.
Nick Carraway — The story’s narrator. Nick rents the small house next to Gatsby’s mansion in West Egg and, over the course of events, helps Gatsby reunite with Daisy (who happens to be Nick’s cousin). Nick’s Midwestern sensibility finds the East an unsettling place, and he becomes disillusioned with how wealthy socialites like the Buchanans lead their lives. He is in the bonds business.
Jordan Baker — Professional golfer of questionable integrity. Friend of Daisy’s who, like Daisy, represents women of a particular class. Jordan is the young, single woman of wealth, admired by men wherever she goes. She dates Nick casually, but seems offended when he is the first man not to fall for her charms. Although she is savvy, she comes off as somewhat shallow in her approach to life.
