My Selection — Jordan Baker

A character from “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The author purchased the handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby from Éditions des Saints Pères in Paris. Only 1,800 were printed. Fitzgerald link. Image by author on Pixlr.com

Hi, everyone. It’s Walter Bowne, talking, once again, about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

One character that often gets overlooked is Jordan Baker — the professional golf player. She is essential to the plot, to the satirical portrait of “liberated women” of the 1920s, and as a…