Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway is a prime example of how an unbiased and trustworthy narrator can change a book. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told in first person point of view, through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a 30-year-old man living in West Egg, New York. Carraway tells the story as it is happening and lets the reader know what is to come. Nick seems to be an “invisible character” because he is involved in the story but not in the major conflict. Nick Carraway is the perfect choice of narrator because he is reliable, connected to the main characters, and has an amicable personality.

In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a very puzzling character. He has many emotions and qualities throughout the book. Not only does Nick stay very consistent through his colors in the book, he is three main colors, grey, white, and red. Nick is very stereotypical in the colors. He is very textbook throughout the book. He is a character though!

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, an unfortunate and rather tragic love story is told. The narrator, Nick Carraway, plays quite a big role in the novel. He ends up knowing quite a bit of vital information about nearly every character in the book, and what he chose to do with that information greatly affected the tragic ending of this book. Throughout the novel, Nick is trusted with several secrets and choses to keep all of them to himself. He doesn’t once cross or wrong anyone. Although this is usually considered a good thing, if Nick decided to share this vital information, the tragedy at the end could have been avoided, or at the very least been less extreme.

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces a complex and round character, Nick Carraway, a very honest, small town man. One specific interaction that stands out, when you begin to see a change when Nick is invited to one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties. Nick was the only person ever invited personally to one of these parties. Nick hears rumors about Gatsby. When they both first meet, Gatsby is very friendly. He invites him to live the high lie with him. It was all an act to get Nick to arrange a date for Gatsby and Daisy. Nick being the honest, well rounded man he is, is in a tough spot. Arranging a meeting secretly between his married cousin, and neighbor is something out of his character. But he agrees to Gatsby’s request

The imperfections that hinder Nick Carraway include being extremely censorious, egotistic, conceited, self-deluding, self-absorbed, and socially inept. Despite Nick viewing himself as unprejudiced “The Great Gatsby” contains multiple instances that prove to be contrary to Nick’s morals. “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Fitzgerald 154)

The Great Gatsby is a classic American literature book filled with drama, and huge events important to America’s history. The book is set after World War 1; the main character is Nick Carraway. A friend of an old colleague Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan Nick’s cousin once removed, and married to Tom. Finally, there is Jay Gatsby, Daisy’s old lover, and Nick’s very wealthy neighbor. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American dream is naïve, the people who pursue it are oblivious to reality, and foolish.

Although there are many characters in this novel with lack of integrity, there are a few with integrity, one being Nick. Nick Carraway is honest and reliable, he is true to his values, and remains a moral compass with everything and everyone around him. His integrity serves as a laudable contrast. Nick always remained loyal to Gatsby, after everything that Gatsby did wrong and everything others did wrong, Nick worked hard to plan his funeral and invite everyone, he got extremely upset with the people coming up with excuses but Gatsby never really had true friends so nobody wanted to be involved with his death. Nick helps show how although many characters in this book are greedy and only care when they get benefits out of things, there are some loyal characters throughout as well.

Nick Carraway describes himself in the first chapter as reserved in judgement and tolerant of other people, even when subjected to their unwanted and boring secret confessions. He is indeed more tolerant than most, and holds judgement even when faced with huge and unmistakable character flaws. For instance, he makes no solid judgement on Tom Buchanan when he sees him openly displaying his extramarital affair with Myrtle and holding no shame or guilt about cheating on Daisy. His unwillingness to criticize leads to his having double feelings about several characters, because he see their faults but wants to keep an open mind. He is especially reserved in holding judgement against Gatsby, which causes him to go so far as to create a sort of blind spot towards him. He criticizes Gatsby’s obsession with wealth and luxury, and is very aware of his criminal behavior, yet he sees more in Gatsby the man who would do anything for his love and worked towards his dreams all his life.

Nick Carraway is a man who is polite, an observer, and reserves all judgement to have infinite hope. He values honesty and what is morally correct yet wealthy charters show no sense of value, such as Tom Buchanan’s affair with Myrtle Wilson and Tom who sends George Wilson to kill Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan never took responsibility for Myrtle’s death which violates what is morally correct. The lower class would do anything for money, such as Myrtle Wilson when spending Tom’s money on a materialistic things. Gatsby as well chooses a materialistic life but since he was born into the lower class he will never be accepted into the wealthy social elite.

Without Nick, Gatsby's true colors would not be shown and his behavior would be left not pondered.  His presence from the beginning to the

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925, creating a tale that surrounds itself in the booming culture of wealth, and its counterpart, corruption. Fitzgerald details a long list of deceitful characters waxing and waning between their selfish needs and their outward appearances, however there are two characters who exemplify this most accurately; Tom Buchannan and Nick Carraway. The two men have different intentions with their horrible behavior but the impact remains the same, enforcing a similar amount of despicability granted to the both of them.

Fitzgerald depicts Gatsby as a likable and more idealistic character and a hopeless romantic pursuing Daisy even though; she has already picked Tom over him. While we do not see the inner thoughts and emotions from Gatsby as often as with Holden, due to Nick being the narrator, the center of the fragmented society and the novel is, without doubt, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby also is surrounded by people yet immersed in isolation, all his party guests are either not invited at all or merely acquaintances. Just as is his fake life he created for himself as, despite all his

In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway functions as both the foil and protagonist, as well as the narrator. A young man from Minnesota, Nick travels to the West Egg in New York to learn about the bond business. He lives in the district of Long Island, next door to Jay Gatsby, a wealthy young man known for throwing lavish parties every night. Nick is gradually pulled into the lives of the rich socialites of the East and West Egg. Because of his relationships with Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom, and others, along with his nonjudgmental demeanor, Nick is able to undertake the many roles of the foil, protagonist, and the narrator of The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

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.