The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker Jordan Baker has a very important function in the novel The Great Gatsby as being a pro-golfer with a boyish, cynical, and self-centered attitude. One of the purposes she serves is that she narrates the story and also helps the reader to understand the other characters by how she interacts and relates to them. She serves as a link between the major characters, staying from house to house, living off people between East Egg (Tom and Daisy’s house) and West Egg (Gatsby’s and Nick’s houses). She is rich enough to be comfortable among the residents of East Egg, but also appears at Gatsby’s parties in order to try to fit in. By using