Scott Fitzgerald seemingly establishes an honest and reliable narrator in Nick Carraway to contrast the corrupt society into which he has fallen. ... The belief of self-reliance, moral attitude and hard work in this age has become in the words of Nick Carraway, " the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty." ... In contrast to Nick's East Egg companions, he earns a living as a bond salesman. ... We see through Nick Carraway that Jay Gatsby devotes his whole life to the fulfillment of a romantic dream he created as a young man. ... On one hand, Nick enjoys the upbeat a...

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The Trustworthiness of Nick Callaway F. ... It is through the eyes of Nick Carraway that the reader is exposed to the frivolities that take place on Long Island during summer of 1922. ... It is this advice that Nick bases his outlook on life upon. ... The reader is witness to a full spectrum of human behaviour because of the almost omniscient like narration of Nick Carraway. While it is true that the reader has little choice but trust the words of a narrator to be nothing but forthright, in The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway gains the readers trust early because of his strong moral characte...

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The other premise that is rather obvious but tricky to argue is that Nick could be gay. What can be easily seen through the first pages of the book is that Nick Carraway was born in 1896, just about the same age as Fitzgerald. ... Nick Carraway diverted from this notion and covered the issue in black and white. ... He expresses his desired for Gatsby more than Tom because Gatsby is loyal to Nick by literally throwing a glamour for romance over Nick's homosexual behaviors. ... He may be too timid to affirm the proclivities that surround Nick's homosexual behaviors. ...

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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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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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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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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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According to Jeffery Steinbrink, "Gatsby's dream obscures his vision of the world as it is and clouds his understanding of the historical process. " At one point in chapter three, Nick Carraway has to tell Gatsby that he cannot change or repeat the past " the past is the way it is and there is nothing he can do about it. ... He says that the past can be repeated, but Nick Carraway reputes him, saying that the past cannot be repeated, at which Gatsby scoffed. ... Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorg...

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At one point in chapter three, Nick Carraway has to tell Gatsby that he cannot change or repeat the past - the past is the way it is and there is nothing he can do about it. ... He says that the past can be repeated, but Nick Carraway reputes him, saying that the past cannot be repeated, at which Gatsby scoffed. ... Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines-(Fitzgerald 6). This statement...

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On its simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go east and learn the bond business. ... Nick's next door neighbor is Jay Gatsby. ... Upon meeting Daisy and Jordan, Nick Carraway noticed the "two young women ballooned slowly to the floor" (p. 12). ... In retort, Dai...

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For instance, inviting Daisy to have tea with him and Nick Carraway. What was worse, moreover, is the fact when he had Jordan Baker talk to Nick for him. He does not have the confidence to confront Nick and is too ashamed of himself to ask Nick to do such things. ... Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, in my opinion, is not responsible for the death of Gatsby because the two characters just happened to be present and are dragged, although by choice, to be involved with this entire tragedy. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway moved to West Egg in the summer on 1922. ... The main characters consist of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and George Wilson. ... Nick may not approve of Gatsby, yet he still thinks of him as great, and looks up to him. ... Nick Carraway is the narrator in this story, he narrates in both first and third person. ... Some foreshadowing at the beginning of the story is the car wreck Nick also talks about how unfortunate it would be for one bad driver to run into another bad driver. ...

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It used a first-person point of view in the form of a narrator, Nick Carraway, who was also involved in the story. ... As Nick began to know Gatsby better, he began to realize there was s! ... When Nick goes to New York with Gatsby and meets Meyer Wolfshiem, the reader is given some suspicion that Jay is involved in illegal dealings, because of the hints that Meyer Wolfshiem drops and the things Jay tells Nick about Meyer. ... Jay Gatsby tells Nick about where he came from, how he got there, and why he got there. Nick realizes that Gatsby is so in love with Daisy that he is crazy and will do ...

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Nick Carraway, Daisy's cousin, lives next door to Gatsby and narrates the story. However, Carraway is very undependable as far as narrating goes. ... "He wants [you] to invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over,"" as a friend told Carraway. ... When the two met again at Carraway's house, they were speechless. ...

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Nick Carraway, the unusual narrator, is utilized by Fitzgerald to help Gatsby find his American dream. Nick is also used to show Gatsby the absurdity of his unobtainable dream. ... Nick arranges for Daisy to come over for tea so Gatsby can pop over and meet Daisy again. Nick goes along with the plan because he wants to help Gatsby realize how insane his illusionary goals are. Nick is certain that this endless pursuit of an unattainable dream will eventually lead to Gatsby's downfall....

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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... One of Nick's Characteristics that is incompatible with Toms is that Nick is cautious when speaking. ... Nick is honest in his relationships. ... Nick and two others were the only one's to attend the service. ... Both Nick and Tom have characteristics that are quite the opposite. ...

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