e two girls at the party when the three speculate on Mr. Gatsby and his background, suggesting first that he killed a man once and then that he was a German spy during the war. Jordan is always ready to gossip about someone and seems to spend her time either playing in tournaments or discussing her acquaintances at cocktail parties. Jordan is also the individual who first gains the confidence of Gatsby. For Nick, Jordan becomes his entree into the world of West Egg to a greater degree than his relationship to Daisy, and Jordan also comes to embody the question of honesty which will become so important to Nick that he abandons the values of the West Eggers after Myrtle's death. He begins seeing Jordan more and more in New York and reacts to her character:
She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subt
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