<Li> Daisy Fay Buchanan--an attractive though shallow and self - absorbed, young Louisville, Kentucky debutante and socialite, identified as a flapper . She is Nick's second cousin, once removed, and the wife of Tom Buchanan . Daisy once had a romantic relationship with Gatsby, before she married Tom . Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the central conflicts in the novel . Daisy is believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's own youthful romances with Ginevra King . </Li> <Li> Thomas "Tom" Buchanan--a millionaire who lives on East Egg, and Daisy's husband . Tom is an imposing man of muscular build with a "husky tenor" voice and arrogant demeanor . He is a former football star at New Haven College . Buchanan has parallels with William Mitchell, the Chicagoan who married Ginevra King . Buchanan and Mitchell were both Chicagoans with an interest in polo . Like Ginevra's father, whom Fitzgerald resented, Buchanan attended Yale and is a white supremacist . </Li> <Li> Jordan Baker--A professional golfer and Daisy Buchanan's long - time friend with a sarcastic streak and an aloof attitude . She is Nick Carraway's girlfriend for most of the novel, though they grow apart towards the end . She has a slightly shady reputation amongst the New York social elite, due to her habit of being evasive and untruthful with her friends and lovers . She established herself as a professional golfer in a predominantly male sport . With great success came criticism as she faced a scandal of cheating, which harmed her reputation as a golfer . Fitzgerald told Maxwell Perkins that Jordan was based on the golfer Edith Cummings, a friend of Ginevra King . Her name is a play on the two popular automobile brands, the Jordan Motor Car Company and the Baker Motor Vehicle, alluding to Jordan's "fast" reputation and the freedom now presented to Americans, especially women, in the 1920s . </Li> <Li> George B. Wilson--a mechanic and owner of a garage . He is disliked by both his wife, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan, who describes him as "so dumb he doesn't know he's alive". At the end of the novel, he kills Gatsby, wrongly believing he had been driving the car that killed Myrtle, and then kills himself . </Li>

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