Nick plays many important roles in the novel, The Great Gatsby, that add to the overall effect of the story. The role of narrator is best suited for Nick for many reasons. In the beginning of the novel he describes himself as a person that has integrity and is an honest person. Also, he is a person that has graduated from Yale and come from a well to do family.
Frank Magill writes, "Nick is represented as an honest, reliable person, and his perceptions and judgments are accepted by the reader" Magill par 9. This shows that Nick is a person who can be trusted and not a person who will twist details to make something sound better or to sugar coat something.
Casie E. Hermanson writes, "Nick characterizes himself as someone who understands Gatsby better, who wants to set the record straight Once Daisy and Gatsby meet for the first time in 5 years there is. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is killed by the character Wilson, because of rumors that Gatsby Killed Wilson's wife Myrtle as well as having an affair with her.
Tom Buchanan was. The writer purports that Gatsby began by pursuing an ideal, not the real woman. In fact, he could not recognize the type of person she had become since they last saw each other.
Gatsby lives in a dream world and Daisy is part of that dream. As the novel progresses, however, Gatsby's feelings change. Scott Fitzgerald presents a specific portrait of American society during the roaring twenties and tells the story of a man who rises from the gutter to great riches. This man, Jay Gatsby, does not realize that his new wealth cannot give him the privileges of class and status. Nick Carraway who is from a prominent mid-western family tells the story. Nick presents himself as a reliable narrator, when actually several.
The Great Gatsby depicts three main different social classes; old money, new money, and no money. The highest of the classes is represented by Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy. Old money families had fortunes dating back from the 19th century or earlier and also had built up influential and powerful social connections over period of time.
The Great Gatsby written by F. The craving to belong prompts characters in social environments to portray themselves as different people. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the pursuit of acceptance that leads characters to reject their past identities in an ineffective attempt to accomplish the illusive American dream.
In addition, Nick has the distinct honor of being the only character who changes substantially from the story's beginning to its end. Nick, although he initially seems outside the action, slowly moves to the forefront, becoming an important vehicle for the novel's messages. On one level, Nick is Fitzgerald's Everyman, yet in many ways he is much more. He comes from a fairly nondescript background.
He hails from the upper Midwest Minnesota or Wisconsin and has supposedly been raised on stereotypical Midwestern values hard work, perseverance, justice, and so on. He is a little more complex than that, however. His family, although descended from the "Dukes of Buccleuch," really started when Nick's grandfather's brother came to the U.
By the time the story takes place, the Carraways have only been in this country for a little over seventy years — not long, in the great scope of things.
In addition, the family patriarch didn't exhibit the good Midwestern values Nick sees in himself. When the civil war began, Nick's relative "sent a substitute" to fight for him, while he started the family business. This little detail divulges a few things: It places the Carraways in a particular class because only the wealthy could afford to send a substitute to fight and suggests that the early Carraways were more tied to commerce than justice.
Nick's relative apparently doesn't have any qualms about sending a poorer man off to be killed in his stead. Given this background, it is interesting that Nick would come to be regarded as a level-headed and caring man, enough of a dreamer to set goals, but practical enough to know when to abandon his dreams. Also contributing to Nick's characterization as an Everyman are his goals in life.
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