The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

As a witness to everything that happened, the character Nick is a well rounded man who cares much about the close people in his life. He is good friends with Gatsby and looks up to him only to be disappointed by his actions, but this never changes there friendship.

In the beginning of the Great Gatsby, we are introduced to a number of characters through the main narrator, Nick Carraway. We are given hints and suggestions about how Nick can be portrayed as a narrator and as a main character. Throughout the first two chapters, we get an impression that Nick is an effective narrator and a key character in the novel. However, our opinions of him may differ as we get deeper into the story.

Nick describe Tom Buchanan in chapter 1 as a sort of bigoted and racist. This is due to his interest in a book that supports racist, white-supremacist attitudes that Tom finds “convincing”. Tom is a described as if being a cheater due to his so called lover in New York.

So already you expect Gatsby to great before you have even opened the book. As the first chapter unravels The Narrator and Gatsby’s Neighbor Nick Carraway, tells us plainly that he loathes Gatsby, however by the end of the paragraph he describes Gatsby’s character as “gorgeous”. He also says

East Egg represents old money and the wealthier live there while the West Egg represents new money and “less fashionable of the two”; the ones who have become rich recently.

2 Nick describes himself as a person who doesn’t judge others. He says it is a family trait that was given to him by his father. Nick is from an upper-middle-class family. Nick believes his accepting personality makes people feel more comfortable sharing their secrets with him.

In the beginning of the book, Nick shares the piece of advice that his father gave to him when he was younger. He said, "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had . . . I'm inclined to reserve all judgments." (Fitzgerald 1) This quote proves Nick’s desire to be an authentic narrator, and wants people to hold their judgements on him. This also shows how Nick is not quick to judge people and that he has morals. In spite of this advice, Nick is very opinionated and judgmental towards characters

3. Nick describes Tom Buchanan as an over privileged, unsatisfiable man who peaked in college. Nick explains that after Tom's time in the spotlight as a star football player nothing that's comes after could ever live up to his expectations. When Nick goes to visit Tom and Daisy for the first time in many years he

He is the narrator of the book and one of the main characters as well. As a protagonist,

In this chapter we learn crucial bits of characters personalities. We learn that Tom is aggressive and arrogant. We also learn that Jordan Baker is a friend of Daisy Buchanan, Tom’s wife. We also learn that the green light Gatsby looks out throughout the novel represents Daisy’s home.

3. Tom Buchanan is a guy that is married to Daisy. He went the same club as him in Yale but never knew each other that much. The way Nick describe Tom was Cruel, big, aggressive and sturdy.

The 1920s was a decade of prosperity and advancement in the United States. It was an exciting age for social and cultural change. The Harlem Renaissance, the model T, prohibition, sports heroes, the role of women,new technologies, and booming stocks all helped influence the social changes in the "Roaring Twenties". People laughed, cried, partied, and dreamed more because the sky was the limit and everything seemed possible. No novel depicted the true essence of the profound era more than “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925, “The Great Gatsby” is set during the Roaring Twenties, in 1922 and tells the story of one man 's pursuit of the American Dream. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is an upper class American man who

Nick is a reliable narrator because he is within and without of the story. Towards the middle of the book thats when Nick and the readers realize that he is “within and without”. “..., simultaneously enchanted by repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” Here, the author portrays Nick as if he was present in mind but absent in heart, he has an overview of everything which means that through him we will see the truth and that he is someone to trust throughout the book.“Human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too looking up and wondering”. Here, the author wants us to know what nick is doing, he is in the scene getting along with them, knows their secrets, but he observes it all and knows what is really going on. Clearly, Nick is reliable because he is within and without, views it all, knows each individual and through him we are able to see what is truly happening between the characters.

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Throughout the novel, Nick constantly says and does things that contradict himself. Through characterization, plot details, and symbolism, Fitzgerald shows us that Nick Carraway is clearly an unreliable narrator.

Due to Nick being the narrator, we see the whole story in his eyes. This makes it more difficult to truly observe him as a character due to him not being the protagonist in the novel. Therefore, Nick’s character development is shown through his interactions and observations of the other characters. At the beginning of the novel, Nick exists on the outside of the wealth consuming lifestyle. This allows Nick to observe the lives of his peers without feeling much emotion towards it.