Jedediah Leland is referred to as Charles Kane’s closest friend. Something similar can be said of Nick Carraway’s relationship to Jay Gatsby. Both Leland and Carraway portray stern moralists, both characters look at Kane and Gatsby respectively with protruding respect and admiration. They both hold high regards for said characters and are disappointed when they realize that in the end, Kane and Gatsby alike are capable of human error. They are not only important to their story’s main characters, but to the story overall since they are narrators who have both witnessed the events of the story but also played a role in them. However, with time, respect and admiration slowly start deteriorating, and Leland only stays close to Kane until he must
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As the narrator, Nick introduces the image of Gatsby at the beginning of chapter one right after briefly talking about the advice his father told him about criticizing others (page 2). This lets us know that for one, we are about to read a story in which Gatsby is the main character, and two, that Nick thought of Gatsby as a dignified individual important enough to write an entire book about. The language and punctuation used when talking about Gatsby is very baroque and over the top. Moreover, the use of the em-dash punctuation mark introduces and emphasizes Nick’s thoughts and feelings towards Gatsby’s “heightened sensitivity to the promises of …show more content…
Although Jedediah ended his relationship with Kane due to Kane’s immoral and unethical decisions, at one point in their relationship they shared the same ideals. Thus, Jedediah’s character served as a point of reference to compare how much Kane changed over time and how his beginning intention and objective strayed far away due to the desire for power and control over the people. Nick’s character is important as it gives us an insight into the real Gatsby. Not the eccentric Gatsby, but the real Gatsby or a fraction of what was left of him. His character also serves as a point of reference like Jedediah’s, but in this case, Nick helps us understand how remarkably extravagant Gatsby, and the others around him are by comparing it to the average man, the
As the narrator, Nick introduces the image of Gatsby at the beginning of chapter one right after briefly talking about the advice his father told him about criticizing others (page 2). This lets us know that for one, we are about to read a story in which Gatsby is the main character, and two, that Nick thought of Gatsby as a dignified individual important enough to write an entire book about. The language and punctuation used when talking about Gatsby is very baroque and over the top. Moreover, the use of the em-dash punctuation mark introduces and emphasizes Nick’s thoughts and feelings towards Gatsby’s “heightened sensitivity to the promises of …show more content…
Although Jedediah ended his relationship with Kane due to Kane’s immoral and unethical decisions, at one point in their relationship they shared the same ideals. Thus, Jedediah’s character served as a point of reference to compare how much Kane changed over time and how his beginning intention and objective strayed far away due to the desire for power and control over the people. Nick’s character is important as it gives us an insight into the real Gatsby. Not the eccentric Gatsby, but the real Gatsby or a fraction of what was left of him. His character also serves as a point of reference like Jedediah’s, but in this case, Nick helps us understand how remarkably extravagant Gatsby, and the others around him are by comparing it to the average man, the