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Why Is Nick Important In The Great Gatsby

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In the novella of The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald the characters drive the plot of the story. Nick is a major importance to The Great Gatsby because he sets up the beginning of the story. He starts off by talking in how his great grandfather's brother came over in 1851 in having someone else take his place in the civil war. “The actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War,” (Fitzgerald 3). The quote explains how his whole family is a bunch of liars, implying Nick’s character. He moved to West Egg to start in the bond business his father had financed him to go for a year. In Nick’s eye West Egg was less spiffy than East Egg had all of the better looking residentials.

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