Nick Carraway As The Narrator In The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald made Nick Carraway as the narrator of The Great Gatsby and a character in the story. Nick had close connection with people who is wealthy, Tom Buchanan was wealthy by generations and new wealth man as Jay Gatsby. Nick moved to New York to get a job in the bond business and he rented a small rental house next to Jay Gatsby’s mansion. Gatsby is a rich man that who became wealthy himself recently. Nick experience the social class different about rich poor. Nick is not a reliable narrator because he never saw anything all past information he got from Gatsby and Jordan. He is telling the story from the first person point of view. Nick had control over the story from beginning to its end, he judges people when he meets them with their …show more content…

Nick always judge people’s social status, activities, and behaviors. When he saw Jorden Baker in the mid-summer, “At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and everyone knew her name” (57), Nick knows how to have behaved with some is popular in the society. Nick also change his thoughts of judgement when he went to Gatsby’s party for the first time he said he felt air of pleasantness exits among the guests, and later at another party there was same people, but nick did not find the party as the first one because he said “I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before” …show more content…

Nick made the reader believe Gatsby is an honorable, hard working man and later tell us about how James Gtz became jay Gatsby
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98).
Nick explores the truth about Gatsby past and how he became wealthyy. Gatsby became wealth by Dan Cody, who is an important person in the society and a heavy drinker. After being with Dan Cody, Gatsby falls in love with wealth and he made Dan Cody into most drunk able person and took over the Dan Cody power and he changed his name from James Gtz to Jay Gatsby. Nick made the reader suspension until he reveals the truth about Gatsby.
Nike was carried away by the Gatsby wealthy and emotions, Nick always thinks because of Gatsby has money all the people respect him even though some say bad thoughts about

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