While reading this Chapter I noticed something that I had not detected before: Nick is narrating this novel as a reflection. This is evident on page 61 when he details that he had formerly written a list of the attendees to Gatsby’s parties, including for certain guests that by now they had passed away or been divorced, which would not have been known at the time of the summer. Along with this idea, Nick also breaks the fourth wall: “But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality” (61). Or did he not break the fourth wall and is this comment to another character to whom is retelling the story? I want to know where in life he is now and what is
