Nick from The Great Gatsby

A detailed Summary of Nick from The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway tells the story of The Great Gatsby, and also plays an honorable and trustful character in the novel. Throughout the story, developes and adjusts to life on the East Coast to better fit in the intellectual, rich and snobby East and West Eggs of Long Island. As a narrator, Nick is an observer and analyzes all the people he meets, always learning more about his new home and its population. He gives many long descriptive passages referring to these, and thanks to his honesty he provides an analysis unparalleled to that of any another possible narrator. He may not be the main character of the story, but he manages to bring the two main characters of the novel together, and represents the

missing link between the obsessive Jay Gatsby and the pretty yet vain Daisy Buchanan.

"Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east (p.24)".

Nick arrives on Long Island from the Midwest, and being a bit out of his element as an innocent, traditional and conservative type of person from a typical Midwestern lifestyle, he stays informed but uninvolved at first in order to analyze the people he comes acros

the necessary and intriguing parts of the story while omitting useless or redundant occurrences . Nick is the model citizen in The Great Gatsby.

create some sort of ambiance. Jay Gatsby had a dream that had obsessed him even before the story began: Daisy Buchanan. His life is nearly devoted to wooing her. He begins the story

Having Nick as a narrator works very well for several reasons. He is an outsider to this world of corruption, this "valley of ashes", thus he is perfect (especially towards the beginning of the story) for an analysis of the new terrain, and could give the reader a better description of the

social status very similar to that of Daisy's. He does not give many details of the relationship however, which is another sign of his admirable humbleness. He has this relationship at the same time that Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair, and we do not learn much of this either, which perhaps is due to Nick's immense respect for Gatsby. "I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd (p.53)". Gatsby may be strong, adolescent-like, vulgar and a bit intimidating just like Tom, but Nick admires him for his elegance, unselfishness, eloquence and ambition.

s. He builds confidence and responsibility amidst his peers, does not become selfish, and begins to involve himself with the main characters in a positive way. He aspires to somewhat arrange the conflicts going on without showing his opinion to them and while keeping his honorable integrity. His thoughts and opinions are kept to himself, and this

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Approximate Word count = 1083
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English