Nick Carraway In 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.

Lastly, Nick most important confidant role is toward Jay Gatsby. Nick meets Gatsby after he moves next door to him. They formally meet when Nick is invited to a party of Gatsby. It was not a coincidence that Gatsby lived next door to the love of his life’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy dated when he was James Gatz. They were in love, but when Gatsby left for the war they drifted apart. Although, Gatsby had an elaborate plan to win back Daisy, and it worked, almost. Gatsby moved directly across the bay from Daisy. He also arranged for them to reunite. It almost worked because by the end of the day that they spent together at

When Gatsby reveals to about his relationship with Daisy, Nick’s relationship with Gatsby takes a full u-turn as it rapidly advances their association from simple acquaintances to close friends. Nick’s outlook of Gatsby undergoes a similar transformation. When Nick learns of the previous relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby’s actions make sense to Nick. The mansion, the extravagant parties, and the green light were all in the efforts for making Daisy notice him. Gatsby lives his life for the past life that he lived. He spends his life seeking the attention of his love, Daisy, and as Nick explains, “He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby sought out the American dream in order to win over the love of Daisy which creates a different perception of himself to Nick. Nick, now knowing Gatsby’s intentions worries about Gatsby’s possible rejection, and then warns him that, “[he] wouldn’t ask too much of her, you can’t repeat the past.” (Fitzgerald 110) But Gatsby, blinded by love, strives to win Nick’s married cousin’s heart. Nick perceives Gatsby as a man dwelling on the past

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the story of the idiosyncratic millionaire Jay Gatsby. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner from Long Island who later moves to Manhattan. Gatsby’s life is organized around one desire, Daisy, the woman he loved. This desire leads him on an expedition from poverty to wealth, reuniting with his old love, and his eventual death. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to portray the American Dream where people seek out self-gratification and pleasure. He captures the romance of the roaring twenties with the cars, money, illegal alcohol and the wildest parties one could imagine. Much like the character, Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), wasn’t born into the upper class. While Gatsby is from the lower class, Fitzgerald from the middle class, both end up becoming exceptionally rich, fall into the wildest and reckless life, and use their fortunes to win the love and approval of the women they once loved.

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

Jordan says, “He wants to know, if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over” (78). Gatsby uses Nick to reconnect with Daisy, because he is a mutual friend between the two. Nick is not only connected to the main characters but also has an amicable personality.

Nick however, is unlike the other residents in West Egg. He went to yale, and has social connections with the East Egg, a fashionable area of long island and home to the established upper class. One evening, Nick decides to drive out to the East Egg and have dinner with his beautiful cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom who was a classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful young women in which Nick starts a romantic relationship with. Nick also learns some about Daisy and Tom’s marriage. Jordan tells him Tom has a lover named myrtle who lives in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Soon after, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle.In a party in the apartment Tom keeps his affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom and Daisy, and Tom ends up breaking her nose.

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”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays a world filled with rich societal activities, love affairs, and dishonesty. Nick Carraway is the busy narrator of the book, a curious choice considering that he is in a different class and almost in a different world than Gatsby and the other characters. Nick relates the plot of the story to the reader as a part of Gatsby’s circle. He has hesitant feelings towards Gatsby, despising his personality and corrupted dream but feeling drawn to Gatsby’s wonderful ability to hope. Using Nick as an honorable guide, Fitzgerald attempts to guide readers on a journey through the novel to show the corruption and failure of the American Dream. To achieve

Jay Gatsby is a vastly wealthy individual whose past gets him involved in an affair and an accidental killing. Gatsby was once a poor boy who fell in love with a sweetheart by the name of Daisy. They were passionate about each other until Gatsby went off to fight in World War I. Gatsby had Daisy promise that she would wait on him and that he would return to her so they could get married. However, Daisy is impatient and she finds another man, named Tom Buchanan, whom she marries. Gatsby later returns and is devastated after learning of this news. Gatsby and Daisy flirt with

Nicks first sees Gatsby reaching towards the mysterious green light, which he later realizes is the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He calls himself an Oxford man, and speaks with a visible fake English accent. Gatsby befriends his neighbor Nick with the sole purpose of using him in order to get closer to daisy. With Nick and Jordan’s help, the two are reunited on a rainy afternoon in Nick’s house. Blindly in love, Gatsby acts like a foolish little boy, knocking down Nick’s clock. The long awaited reunion is later moved to Gatsby’s mansion. There he displays his wealth to Daisy. When he exhibits his imported shirts “suddenly with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily” (98). Daisy’s tears are not because the shirts were beautiful; her tears signify her obsession for wealth and money, which is all she cares about.

The night that Nick Carraway first sees Gatsby, or rather his outline in the night, Nick immediately acknowledges Gatsby’s aura of desire. Nick, on-looking from his house, sees Gatsby stretch “out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way,” prompting Nick to glance seaward and notice “nothing except a single green light, minute and far away” (Fitzgerald 20, 21). Finally, the encounter ends with Gatsby vanishing before Nick looks back. This concept of wanting, reaching for something that is visible yet extremely far away, is a reoccurring aspect of The Great Gatsby. Ultimately, Gatsby is reaching for Daisy, with whom he is infatuated. Given that Gatsby lacks the family pedigree and old money that Daisy enjoys, he must create his wealth

Like Jane, Jay Gatsby lacks the equality needed to rekindle a relationship with the love of his life. However, unlike Jane, Gatsby is already rich and is longing for a true identity with which he can become a prominent figure in society. Gatsby was a Lieutenant stationed at the base near Daisy's home when they started dating and fell in love. Gatsby lied to Daisy and "let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself" (Fitzgerald 156). He told her that he was a wealthy and prestigious man who can take care of her. Gatsby was soon called off to the war and Daisy promised to wait for him. She ends up marrying Tom Buchanan who has a solid social position and the approval of her parents. Since then, Daisy has moved on with her life with Tom in East Egg, but Gatsby's obsession with her has only grown. Nick learns of Gatsby's fixation when Jordan tells him that "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 83). His fixation with her has caused him to completely change his life to try to be near her. Like Jane Eyre, Gatsby longs for a position of equality with his loved one. When Gatsby was young, he worked on a yacht owned by a wealthy man named Dan Cody. Gatsby immediately fell in love with wealth and luxury, and when Cody died, he

Nick arranges Gatsby’s funeral; only Gatsby’s Father and another man attend. Nick answers Gatsby’s phone, discovering the truth behind his wealth. Jordan marries another man and Nick moves to Minnesota.

Nick starts a relationship with Jordan. Through her, Nick finds out that Gatsby and Daisy were in love five years ago, and that Gatsby would like to see her again. Consequently, Nick arranges for Daisy to come over to his house so that Gatsby can “accidentally” drop by. Daisy and Gatsby start having an affair.