Nick Carraway Unreliable Narrator

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story told by a narrator whose name was Nick Carraway. The story is told from Nick’s point of view and you only hear his options about people, like it makes his friends sound really good and the people he dislikes really bad. Nick Carraway is an unreliable narrator because he is biased towards characters, gets drunk while narrating, and leaves parts out of the story. Nick is an unreliable narrator because he is biased towards characters. When Nick describes characters in the story he makes then seem the way that he wants the reader to think they are. “He was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner. Two shinning arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward” (Fitzgerald). He wants the reader to think that tom is an aggressive man and he keeps describing him like that

Nick gets drinks heavily during parts of the books and that might affect his remembrance and accuracy of his narrating. “I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound” (Fitzgerald). Nick was giving his normal opinion about the party at first but then after some drinks he found it a lot more significant, and profound. David O’Rourke, a professor at the Centennial College states, “It would be naive to expect a slow-thinking, sentimental, and occasionally dishonest narrator to be totally reliable. When an element of distortion is added, the challenge of perception becomes prodigious. Carraway is particularly susceptible to alcohol in The Great Gatsby” (David). He is saying that Nick is unreadable in other ways and it only gets worse when he adds in alcohol. While getting drunk makes him an unreliable narrator he also leaves parts out of the