Carraway

The Rational Observer In the end of chapter three, Nick Carraway, the main protagonist in The Great Gatsby, described himself as “one of the few honest people” he had “ever known” (Fitzgerald 59). Nick’s statement, however, was misleading, because it offers the impression that candidness, a characteristic of courage, was his strongest attribute. Although he often resisted the urge to criticize others and the urge to take initiative, he was rational in reserving his intents from people with untrustworthy

Nick Carraway is the narrator from the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is as important as the star player of a team because he is the glue that holds the book and all of the characters together. After a conducting a color analysis test, he has shown he has a green personality. Some of his major traits are logical thinking, being dependable, and being a caring and thoughtful person. Nick is always thinking logically and tries to do not only what is right, but also what is best

“The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we 're descended from the Duke of Baccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather 's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.” (Pg.7) Nick Carraway narrates the whole story in The Great Gatsby,and here he makes a connection to 'The American Dream ' using his own family. In this quote the reader can see that

In the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is written as the narrator for the story. He is a unreliable character to tell the reader the story because reserves all his judgments. The reader is lead to believe what he telling the reader from an third person objective point of view. Nick is not a reliable narrator because is biased in his description of the other characters within the novel. Tom for example, who he views as negatively, and Gatsby who Nick favors over all the other

more than life, lives across the bay from me and I have yet to see her. However, the green light at the end of her dock gives me hope. Hope that one day I will reunite with her and show her all I have done to get her back. The spring of 1922 Nick Carraway moved into the house besides me. It was not until I saw him go to Daisy’s house that I figured out he was her cousin. It was then that I knew it was time to start planning my reunion with my Daisy. I personally invited Nick to a party of mine, just

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

Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, is a young man who was born into a conservative, well established, but not wealthy, Midwestern family. After attending college and serving in World War I, Nick comes back home, but he finds the Midwest seems out of the mainstream of life as he has come to know it out in the world. With his family's financial backing for one year, Nick goes to New York to learn the bond business and establish a career in the East. Nick's work ethic is strong; he works hard, but

Nick Carraway is the only character worth knowing in The Great Gatsby. He is living in East Egg with the rich and powerful people. He is on the guest lists to all of their parties and yet he is the person most worthy of attending such parties because he is well bread and his family is certainly not poor. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Ch1, P1). These words were taught to Nick by his father showing

Nick Carraway and his Role as Character and Narrator Nick Carraway plays an important role as narrator and as a main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald manages to balance both his roles in such a way as to not overwhelm the novel with is presence. Nick manages to tell the story, without over exaggerating himself as a character. His lack of bias exonerates the legitimacy of his role as both narrator and character. Nick’s character sketch also assisted in easing the burdens

whom he viewed himself as and telling a story about the man he really was. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one’, he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Fitzgerald 1). Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, differs from other characters in the book. “ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (Fitzgerald 59). Nick is real, nonjudgemental, and innocent. Fitzgerald can easily relate to people, while understanding