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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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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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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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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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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Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, presents the green light when he says, "Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing but a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been at the end of the dock " (Fitzgerald 21). ... Nick notes: I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. ... Nick sees that Gatsby sacrificed an entire lifetime hoping he can keep his dream of Daisy alive. ... Nick concludes his narration with, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes be...

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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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The novel describes the time period of which Fitzgerald was from and discusses the experiences of a character named Nick Carraway and the acquaintances he makes during the year that the novel takes place. ... This is where Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, also two main characters, live. ... Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation. ...

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The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York City to be successful in the bond business. ... Daisy is Nick's cousin, and Gatsby's long lost lover from before Gatsby went into the war. ... Daisy Buchannan is married to Tom Buchannan, whose house in East Egg is "even more elaborate then I [Nick Carraway] expected, a Georgian Colonial Mansion" (6). ... Gatsby eventually manipulates Nick in some ways to get back together with Daisy. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick was the American Fool. ...

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According to Nick Carraway, "[Jordan Baker] was incurably dishonest. ... When Gatsby dies, only Nick, one of Gatsby's guests, a few of his servants, and Gatsby's father attend the funeral (Fitzgerald 182-183). ... While Nick lives in a run-down cottage, they seem to live a far superior life in the lap of luxury. ... Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, says that "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. ... Carraway describes Gatsby as a person who despite the riches that he has obtained, continues to pursue the better life...

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In the movie, Nick first meets Gatsby privately in Gatsby's house during Gatsby's party. ... While Nick is lead through the stairs and hallways, he has no idea where he is lead. ... By letting Gatsby and Nick meet in public, Fitzgerald gives an opened first impression of Gatsby to the reader. ... In the novel, when, for the first time, Nick Carraway attends Gatsby's party, he comes face to face with a character called "Owl Eyes- in the library. In here, Owl Eyes tells Nick and Jordan, who was also in the library, that all the books were real. ...

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Responders sympathise with Gatsby because they have been told he "turns out to be alright in the end", feel contempt for the Buchanans (even before it is made clear exactly what they have done) because they are described as "foul dust" and respect and trust Nick as storyteller as he is self described as honest and non-judgemental. By conveying all impressions and ideas from one perspective, that is of narrator Nick Carraway's, Fitzgerald unifies his composition. All values and judgements are those of Nick's which helps to maintain simplicity and give the novel its cohesiveness. ....

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White is often related to Daisy, such as when Nick first mentions when he sees Daisy at her home in East Egg that Daisy is wearing a white dress. ... To Nick. ... The idea of race is also shown on page 67 where Nick sees a limousine "As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur in which sat three modish negroes, to bucks and a girl. ... This quote also shows Nick Carraway to be somewhat racist too. ...

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The introduction to the color green comes at the end of chapter 1, when Nick Carraway sees Jay Gatsby for the first time standing in front of his house. ... This is gathered in Nick's description of the East Egg and the West Egg: " I lived at West Egg, the "well, the less fashionable of the two . ... He tells Nick in a prior conversation that he inherited his money, and then later he talks about how it took him "just three years to earn the money that bought it [his mansion]. ...

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Gatsby uses Nick Carraway as a window to the desperately needed green light. Nick is used as a gateway to Gatsby's goal, Daisy. ... Tom told Nick: "He ran over Myrtle like you"d run over a dog and never even stop the car" (187). ... Nick told Gatsby: "You can't repeat the past." ... Only two characters in the novel have morals one being Nick and the other being Gatsby. ...

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The Midwest is where Nick has been living all his life "My Family has been prominent , well to do people in this Middle Western city for three generations", It is a place of tradition , security , and where family values are more important than money."..a complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name" From descriptions of the Midwest , and from Nick's speech about his father's advice , " "Whenever you feel like criticising anyone ." he told me , "just remember that all the people in this world haven...

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From next door, Nick Carraway witnesses the scene of Gatsby's fabulous summer parties: There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. ... During one of Gatsby's parties, Nick becomes intrigued when he overhears a group gossiping about Gatsby. ... At one of Gatsby's parties, Lucille, a young female guest, chats with Jordan and Nick about an expensive new gown she received. ... Nick, too, indulges himself at one of Gatsby's parties and describes his experience: "I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes...

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From next door, Nick Carraway witnesses the scene of Gatsby's fabulous summer parties: There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. ... During one of Gatsby's parties, Nick becomes intrigued when he overhears a group gossiping about Gatsby. ... At one of Gatsby's parties, Lucille, a young female guest, chats with Jordan and Nick about an expensive new gown she received. ... Nick, too, indulges himself at one of Gatsby's parties and describes his experience: "I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes...

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Nick Carraway, a character originally hailing from the Midwest moves to a very prestigious neighborhood in New York. ... Nick begins to attend the parties thrown by Gatsby and becomes one of his very good friends. It is after this friendship that Gatsby reveals his deep rooted love for Nick's cousin Daisy. ... Nick's first impression when he meets Gatsby is admiration for his overwhelming sense of hope. ... Gatsby was considered a bootlegger by Nick, who lost respe...

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The American Dream/ Wealth/ Dreams and Goals Many characters have the American dream in this novel such as Nick Carraway, the narrator throughout the novel, who moves to New York to become a bond salesman in hopes of making his own fortune. Nick is also arguably the most innocent among the main cast of characters usually not doing things that are wrong and being a mostly honest man. ...

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Does your wealth define your overall standing and personality? Some may agree with this and other may contradict this by saying that someone's personality presents their status in society. Unfortunately, money did define you during the 'Jazz Age' also known as 'The Roaring Twenties' or ...

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