Character Passage #1 from The Great Gatsby (book)
Answer & explain each question in at least 2 sentences.
From viewing day 1, Chapter 3.
For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again. At first I was
flattered to go places with her because she was a golf champion and every one knew her name. Then it
was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face
that she turned to the world concealed something-most affectations conceal something eventually, even
though they don't in the beginning-and one day I found what it was. When we were on a house-party
together up in Warwick, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it
-and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night at Daisy's. At her first
big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers-a suggestion that she had
moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The thing approached the proportions of a scandal
-then died away. A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might
have been mistaken. The incident and the name had remained together in my mind.
What do you learn about your character from this passage?