In stark contrast, Jordan Baker, the tennis player, is described as masculine, suggesting that she is not able to be both feminine and successful. The only way that 1920’s society was able to accept a successful woman was by comparing her to a man (Froelich p87). However, society still had certain expectations of Jordan because she was female, and it was easier for her to always wear a mask to protect herself from the world. When Nick realises who Jordan is, he says, “I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach”(PG#). The fact that she looks so similar relaxing at a friend’s house and after posed photoshoots suggests that she is always “posing,” in a sense (Fitzgerald p18). As a famous female in the 1920’s, she can’t afford to let her real self through. In American society in the 1920’s, women are not treated equally, either fading into the background or renouncing their