Jordan Baker seems familiar to Nick when he meets her at Daisy and Tom Buchanan's house in Chapter I, because, as he reveals in Chapter III, she was a golf champion and her picture had been in the papers. Remembering a lie she told at a recent party, though, helps him to recall that she was once accused of cheating at her first really big gold tournament. She apparently "moved her ball from a bad...
Jordan Baker seems familiar to Nick when he meets her at Daisy and Tom Buchanan's house in Chapter I, because, as he reveals in Chapter III, she was a golf champion and her picture had been in the papers. Remembering a lie she told at a recent party, though, helps him to recall that she was once accused of cheating at her first really big gold tournament. She apparently "moved her ball from a bad lie" in one of the final rounds: she likely picked the ball up and put it down again in a better location for her to take her next swing. The situation had almost become a full-blown scandal, but her caddy eventually rescinded his statements and the other person who supposedly witnessed the incident admitted that he could have made a mistake. Nick says that her name and that story remained forever linked in his mind, and his new knowledge of Jordan -- that "She was incurably dishonest" -- seems to support that idea that she did, in fact, cheat, and that perhaps she bribed the caddy and witness to back off.
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