How Does Nick Carraway Affect The Great Gatsby

American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the conclusion of his infamous novel, The Great Gatsby, illustrates how Nick was immensely affected by the life of his only friend, Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator, was a person similarly like a guardian towards Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism and language to convey Nick’s guardian-like attitude toward Gatsby.
Fitzgerald begins with the disillusion Nick has for Gatsby's future by describing the dreary feeling he imagines in Gatsby. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” (180). Nick takes a look at Gatsby's shadow like a guardian by observing what Gatsby had done to get to his fantasy. Fitzgerald

utilizes this symbolism to relate Gatsby's fantasy to be with Daisy, and that fantasy was so near holding, however, then it was lost.
The author then describes Nick seeing Gatsby reach to toward the light at his dock. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (180). Gatsby regarded to this green light as the future with him and Daisy, to which he wanted to pursue. Fitzgerald utilizes language such as "believed" and "recedes" to indicate that Nick was somebody who took care of him with these words. Believed was utilized to demonstrate Nick was a man who deeply cared about Gatsby.
Nick is portrayed as a guardian for Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates this by utilizing rhetorical devices such as symbolism and word usage. He illustrates how Nick felt to be a guardian for Gatsby because he was Gatsby's one and only friend.