Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby is a story that is of great significance in literature. It teaches us the consequences that come with love and wealth. In both The Great Gatsby novel and movie, Nick Carraway is shown as someone who watches everything happening around him without fully participating. He sees the faults and behaviors of the other characters, but doesn’t always intervene or take responsibility. In both versions, Nick doesn't hold much guilt or fault for what happens, as he mainly observes rather than actively shaping every event. However, he remains a crucial element in the story, providing insights into the lives of those around him, particularly Gatsby. Thus, Nick Carraway is portrayed as a crucial element throughout the movie and novel. Although …show more content…

Now it was once again just a green light on the dock. And his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (The Great Gatsby 01:04:07-01:04:24). This quote suggests that Gatsby’s dream is fading, and Nick is there to witness it. Similarly, when no phone message arrives for Gatsby, it highlights his loneliness and delusion of Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway in the novel says, “No telephone message arrived.I had an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true, he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky.A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees” (Fitzgerald 161). This quote illustrates how Nick describes Gatsby’s world as unreal and filled with ghosts, showing how Gatsby’s dream has become empty and …show more content…

Furthermore, the novel and the movie, Nick Carraway consistently portrays himself as an outsider, merely observing the lives of those around him. The idea of being a Westerner and having a shared deficiency makes them, Nick and Gatsby, unadaptable to Eastern life. In the novel it states, “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all - Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life” (Fitzgerald 176). This quote emphasizes Nick’s awareness of his detachment, viewing himself and the other characters as outsiders in the East. It suggests a difference that separates them from the environment they find themselves in. In the movie it says, “Looking over my story so far, I’m reminded that for the second time that summer I was guarding other people’s

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