Essay on Nick Nick Carraway is a young man who leaves the Middle West, travels East so as to get a job on Wall Street working with stocks and bonds. ... Although he is not the hero of this book, Nick has all the qualities of being a hero. ... In Nick's opinion, Gatsby is worth more than all the people that he, Nick, meets when he comes East. ... Of all the characters in the book, Nick remains pure to the end. ... Gatsby, despite all his faults, had that affect on people especially on Nick. ...

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When one changes location, it can have a positive or negative affect; and unfortunately for Nick Carraway, it had a negative affect. ... Nick Carraway arrives in West Egg from Chicago, expecting to have a simple life being a stockbroker. ... As time goes on, Nick loses himself deeper and deeper into Gatsby's track toward death. Nick sees the Eggs and NYC as full of life, glamour, and elegance. ... This location, which once represented parties full of life and glamour, now haunted Nick. ...

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The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is a protagonist. ... Her best friend is Jordon Baker and a woman that Nick Carraway falls in love with. ... The novel The Great Gatsby starts when Nick Carraway moves to the New York to learn bond business. ... I feel like I also relate to Nick Carraway because he is an honest person. ...

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This narrative, which reminds so many of their own hopes and dreams, uses a story filled with lavish characters and locations, all analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway. ... Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. ... After a heat wave strikes the area, the Buchanans, Nick, and Gatsby all drive into the city for some fun. ... Nick and Gatsby's father Henry Gatz are the only men who knew Gatsby to attend his funeral. ... Carraway is one that few other men can accomplish in skill and detail, especially in recollection of Mr. ...

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This narrative, which reminds so many of their own hopes and dreams, uses a story of lavish characters being analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway to portray the American Dream. ... Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanan's, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. ... Nick, a humble bonds clerk begins this upside-down chapter of his life meeting his cousin for dinner. ... Nick and Gatsby's father Henry Gatz are the only men who knew Gatsby to attend his funeral. ... Carraway is one that few other men can accomplish in skill and detail, especially in recollection of Mr. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald, a parallel with the Arthurian Legend, particularly that of the Crusade for the Holy Grail, is shown through the conduct of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. ... Nick's quest, on the other hand, is for a good life. ... Nick Carraway's crusade is practically a copy of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Nick's desire and quest is to live his life by a moral code. ... Nick is also very concerned with honesty. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald, a parallel with the Arthurian Legend, particularly that of the Crusade for the Holy Grail, is shown through the conduct of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. ... Nick's quest, on the other hand, is for a good life. ... Nick Carraway's crusade is practically a copy of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Nick's desire and quest is to live his life by a moral code. ... Nick is also very concerned with honesty. ...

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It starts with Nick Carraway, the 1st person narrator introducing the setting and characters in the present, then he moves on describing the events of the past. ... Readers are given Nick's perspective of characters as opposed to the protagonist's version. ... Nick always presents a logical sequence of events, filled with quotes of sources other than his own. Readers are presented the story as Nick obtains and due to his "reserved judgement" we are able to make up our own minds e.g. through Jordan Baker's comment, "Tom's got a woman in New York" yet Nick was also told Baker...

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However, the narrator is Nick Carraway, a young mid-westerner from a prominent family who came to New York to enter the bond business. Carraway is involved in all of the events of the novel, yet does not play a significant active role; he is only a passive observer. ... His wife, Daisy, is Nick's second cousin. ... Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker attend a party at Gatsby's mansion. ... He tells Nick that Jordan Baker soon will reveal to Nick the remarkable news that Gatsby had told her. ...

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The plot centres on a fictional World War I army veteran named Nick Carraway. ... Carraway soon became a good friend with his rich neighbour next door, Gatsby, and soon was exposed to many rumours about this man which caused him to question his relationship with him. ... Carraway later found out from Jordan, that Gatzby was once in love with Tom Buchanan's wife, Daisy. ... Daisy soon rekindles the love between her and Gatsby and it turns into a secret affair that only a few, including Carraway, are aware. ...

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Jake Barnes and Nick Carraway are two similar characters conjured up during the roaring twenties. ... Nick and Jake show different aspects of life in the 1920s. ... Love is an important part of Nick and Jake's life. ... Nick went to New York to become a "bond man." ... Nick and Jake are very similar characters. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald, Nick makes a surprising statement: "They"re a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. ... This seems a surprising statement for Nick to make because Nick has high moral expectations and is disgusted in Gatsby as he "[represents] everything for which [he has] an unaffected scorn.". Nick disapproves of Gatbsy "from beginning to end" because of his vulgar materialism, the way he uses Nick, his love of Daisy, his illegal business dealings and his lack of guilt. ... Every character mentioned in this novel is dishonest except for Wilson and Nick Carraway. ... Through the e...

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This man's name is not, in fact, Gatsby, but Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story. ... Throughout the novel, Nick acts as Gatsby's confidant. ... Gatsby befriends Nick for a good reason; to meet his long lost love, Daisy, Nick's cousin. ... This went on until he met Nick Carraway, who was able to bring Gatsby out of his small world. ... Nick Carraway is one of the few people in the book that lives in reality. " They"re a rotten crowd. ...

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For instance, Nick Carraway, the narrator, purposely moved east to learn about the bond business; this commenced the entanglement of complications with the other characters. Nick was the only noble character who never wished to climb up on the social ladder, albeit, he was caught in the middle of it. The morals of Nick made him a likeable character; in present days, a number of Americans lack his laudable traits. In addition, Nick stated that everyone he knew was in the bond business meaning it was a secured method to start getting money. ...

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This is how Gatsby and Nick first met. ... This made Nick more aware of people's feelings. Nick was a friendly and literary young man, who didn't like to gossip. ... Gatsby was a little different from Nick but not totally. ... The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that were descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line came from 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- (Fitzgerald 7). ...

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Unlike Nick, Gatsby does not develop in the course of the story. ... Nick Carraway on the other hand develops very thoroughly in the story. The story, although narrated by Nick about Gatsby's life, is also a story of Nick's own development in the story. ... Nick also develops as he studies the better aspects of Gatsby's life as well. ... Nick also develops when it comes to the idea with his relationship with Jordan baker. ...

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The eyes are always mentioned whenever Nick is there. ... Nick sees it as a kind of carelessness. ... The four main characters of the story were Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan. Nick Carraway is the narrator of this story. ... Even though Nick is the narrator he should not be completely trusted. ...

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Nick Carraway's moral and honest view of life is the only slight relief from the feel of tragedy. ... Nick Carraway, the narrator and main character of this novel, is peculiar when compared with the other characters. Carraway is an ordinary man who judges people by their nature and not by their social status or wealth. ... The simple pleasures of life satisfy and excite Carraway and Fitzgerald also. ... Nick Carraway is one of the only genuine, honest characters in this entire novel. ...

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Nick Carraway proves to have more class than any other character in The Great Gatsby by F. ... Nick tells the world that he has never forgotten the words of his father. ... Nick is one of the few people who recognize Gatspy's greatness. ... These are the last words Nick ever speaks to Gatsby. ... Nick is both a realist and a reputable man. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is portrayed as a confidant to Jay Gatsby. Nick stands out when being compared to the other characters in the story. ... Nick is introduced directly, but Gatsby remains a distant character for a good while. ... The role of Nick Carraway is so important to the book that the character of Jay Gatsby could not exist. ... Throughout the novel, Gatsby comes to trust Nick and treat him as a confidant. ...

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Upon reading the chapters 1 to 3, the first impressions I get of Jay Gatsby come form the feelings of Nick Carraway. The fist mention of his name and small description hold him very high in Nick Carraway's eyes. ... Thes rumors tell us that Gatsby is hidden to everyone, not just Nick. ... Nick didn't believe this though. Gatsby is still very hidden to us as well as Nick. ...

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Sunlight, starlight and moonlight are all plentiful in Nick Carraway's account, but so is twilight – that period of time when the sun has just set and the stars and moon have not yet risen. ... Yet it serves as a bridge between the two, bringing to light the then-unknown history between the two to Nick Carraway. ... As Nick Carraway puts it, the "colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever". ... There is a constant sense of melancholy, and the pervasive twilight lends a certain gloomy ambience; the streets of New York that Nick Carraway walks are constantl...

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Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. ... At the end of the novel, Nick says: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. ... Nick describes the valley of the ashes to be a very distorted and grotesque place. ... Nick is talking about the two ˜eggs' of Long Island. ... In Chapter 1, Nick goes over to his cousin's house, Daisy, and her husband Tom, who lives in East Egg. ...

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In the beginning of the novel Nick Carraway finds Gatsby standing in his back yard "trembling" and reaching out to the green light. During this time Nick is not aware that the green light belongs to the Buchanan's. ... Nick finds Gatsby reaching out to this light on other occasions, hoping that he could finally reach that light. ... These eyes are found on a billboard over the valley of ashes that Nick first sees on his way to meet Myrtle. ... In Chapter VIII, Nick imagines what Gatsby's final thoughts would be. ...

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Does Fitzgerald portray Gatsby as the one who is "Great" or is Nick Carraway the true hero of the novel? Nick Carraway provides the eyes and ears with which Fitzgerald shows us a period "described as a corrupt, amoral and violent time, in which loneliness, frustration and lost spiritual values are typical." ... As one critic states: "Although he is defeated, the dream gives Gatsby a dignity and a set of qualities lacking in other characters," and it is this which ************Our liking of Gatsby is encouraged by the narration of Nick Carraway. ... To do this we have to trust Nick. ... Ni...

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