Examples Of Being An Outsider In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan are two wealthy but careless residents of East Egg, New York. Jay Gatsby, Daisy’s old boyfriend, lives in West Egg and recently became wealthy, as opposed to the inherited wealth that she and Tom have. Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, and throws parties every weekend in an attempt to get her attention. Towards the beginning of the novel, Gatsby invites the narrator Nick Carraway, who is also his neighbor and Daisy’s cousin, to one of his parties. In chapter three of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick uses vivid imagery, figurative language, and syntax in descriptions of Gatsby’s parties in order to communicate both the enticing appearance of wealth, as well as its destructive nature.

Assimilation is the de facto mark of citizenship that fosters integration in society. Not assuming the prevailing culture marginalizes foreigners but affords the retainment of habit, whereas assimilation requires outsiders to forsake indigenous customs, at least ostensibly, in order to adopt new mannerisms. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, narrator and Minnesota native Nick Carraway wavers between his attraction to New York’s epicureanism and his homage to his own conservatism. Obstinance does not impede Nick from immersing himself in the hedonistic yet impersonal New York environment, but rather his morals. After residing in New York for a summer, Nick Carraway surmises that the gaudy and moneyed allure and of the East is morally

To begin with, Nick receives and invitation to Gatsby’s party and he decides to go but once he gets there, he realized that he’s one of the few people who has personally received an actual invitation. Most people who are at Gatsby’s party just show up. In the surroundings,

5 When Nick arrives at Gatsby’s party, he notices that it is a very mixed crowd: people from East Egg rub elbows with people from West Egg, and people from New York high society meet those from "the wrong side of the tracks." It seems that whoever wants to show up to Gatsby’s party is welcome. He also describes the party guest as rich, rude, ill-mannered, and self-indulgent.

Nick’s understanding of Gatsby’s dream goes beyond just establishing the friendship between the two men. Nick is one of the few ordinary, middle-class characters in the novel, and in many ways, he represents the American people as a whole. Though Nick is the narrator of the story, he does not directly drive the plot besides helping to reunite Daisy and Gatsby in his home. Nick lives a middle class life unlike the extremely wealthy people around him, and admits several times that he does not feel part of this elite group, even imagining himself outside of the party. By developing Nick as an ordinary, middle-class character rather than part of the abnormally wealthy people in the novel, Nick becomes

This early insight into Nick’s character sets the stage for his honesty throughout the novel. The character’s virtue is not just about speaking the truth, but also about the authenticity in his interactions with others; Despite being surrounded by individuals who engage in self-deception, refusing to take part in the facade of ignorance that fills their society. “Nick’s insight into the distinction between Gatsby and others does not free him from his own involvement in the world he observes.” Nick doesn’t change the story he observes, instead he adheres to the things he sees and hears. Through his unwavering honesty, Nick not only becomes a reliable narrator, but also a moral compass in the morally puzzling world of The Great Gatsby.

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West Egg was where all of Gatsby’s lavish parties were thrown. No one was ever invited to his party they all just showed up, till the day “A chauffeur... crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note” (Fitzgerald 41). Nick was the first person ever actually invited to Gatsby’s party. At East Egg a lot of luncheons, dinners, and polo matches occur. Most of the dinners and such take place at Tom and Daisy’s “Cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial” (Fitzgerald 6). The first night Nick gets into New York he gets invited to his cousins Daisy’s place for a nice

Gatsby dreams an intangible world and constantly strives to sculpt his life in which his actions are manifestations of his desire to be wealthy. Gatsby’s identity is superficial, and Nick sees through this façade.

The first night Nick goes to Gatsby’s for a party, he’s one of a very few actually invited guests. Everyone else just crashes. At the party, Nick is

ch. 1)... This highlights the depth of his loneliness and the facade that he puts on at parties socializing to try and fit in with society. Everyone believes that if they just had money, life would be perfect, but Gatsby serves as a model that although the American Dream is the goal of most people, it doesn’t mean that you no longer have any

In Fitzgerald’s famous novel, “The Great Gatsby”social classes in the 1920s serve as a significant theme, with an emphasis on the differences between old money and new money. Through multiple interactions between characters and decision making, a clear distinction can be drawn between the differences in classes portrayed in the novel. The narrator, Nick Carraway, reflects on how those born into money receive certain advantages and privileges rather than those who are poor, or worked for their wealth, highlighting the unfairness of the social hierarchy. He states this when he expresses that, “a sense of fundamental decency is parcelled out unequally at birth” (Fitzgerald 2). Nick’s observations and opinions only continue to build during the

Without even meeting Gatsby, Nick delves into a world of delusion and carelessness that marks Gatsby’s party, emphasizing how just mere taste of extravagance and wealth can have such a

Fitzgerald chose Nick to narrate the text because his perspective creates a multifaceted view of the world Fitzgerald portrays. He is an outsider to the wealthy materialistic world in which he lives. His similarity to Gatsby in that respect helps us gain an appreciation for Gatsby’s character, but although Nick and Gatsby are both outsiders Nick fails to fully understand Gatsby. This appreciation but lack of full understanding gives the reader a very different perspective than a narration from Gatsby’s point of view or that of anyone else in the novel. Nick is caught between the perspective of the man “looking up and wondering” (35) and the man in the party. Gatsby is neither; he holds the party but then scarcely shows up. Far from being an outsider to the world of wealth and materialism, he seems to embody it. Gatsby and Nick both disdain the world of vacuous wealth, but they do so from different perspectives. Gatsby has everything he needs to be part of it and chooses not to; Nick is caught on the edge, unsure whether or not he wants that world, but ultimately he cannot have it. If Nick is an outsider unsure about trying to become an insider, Gatsby is an insider trying, studiously, to make himself an outsider.

This shows that Gatsby seems to strangely disappear from Nick’s view, and with Nick unaware of who Jay Gatsby legitimately, this gives the character an aura of mystery. Gatsby is a mysterious unique character that many people seem to guess who his true identity is, for example when Nick and Jordan attend on of Gatsby’s great parties Nick begins to ask Jordan questions about Gatsby “‘where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?’ ‘Now you’re started on the subject”” (Fitzgerald 53). This shows that nobody fully understands who Gatsby truly is, and that although many people participate at his parties, no one really knows who the host actually is, making Jay Gatsby mysterious as ever.