Despite their apparent contrasting nature, both narratives observe a certain form of distance, with the narrator in the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, being a peripheral one and the narration of Of Mice and Men being done in third person. However, as Nick Carraway himself is immersed within the story, it makes for a more subjective narrative. ... Nick states that his invitation to Gatsby's party was "signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand" (Fitzgerald, 53). ... Nick presents the reader with no hints or foreshadowing of the event and we are only made aware of her death when Nick stumbles upon...

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Therefore, Nick is suggesting that Gatsby was striving to be a man he envisions in his fondest dreams, in a sense a perfect human being. ... As Nick Carraway narrates, "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors" eyes...a fresh, green breast of the new world. ... Perhaps Nick sums Gatsby's fate well when he states, " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ... Here, Nick reveals Gatsby's lifelong quest to transcend his past as ultimately futile. ... What was once for Thomas Jefferson - a belief in self-reliance ...

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." ... "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault ...

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Nick Carraway gives us the first impression on Jordan Baker as being the ideal model of a flapper when he describes her as a "slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backwards at the shoulders like a young cadet.... She consistently lies to Nick and twists the story about her being accused for cheating at a golf tournament. ...

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