The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway: Negatively Capable or not?
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a character that prides himself on his ability to “reserve all judgment” in life with the endeavor to pursue and maintain the negatively capable persona that he has been fabricating over the years. On many occasions Nick tends to contradict himself and invalidate his claims of being “one of the few tolerant people left in society”. On more than one occasion, Nick has been shown to contradict himself, and leads one to wonder to what extent his negative capability reaches. The way he experiences emotions and expresses opinions; Nick sees himself as unique in the sense that his revelations aren’t “plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppression," as he does not allow biases and prejudices to affect the way in which he concocts ideas organically. Yet even on his elevated pedestal overlooking those in the lower zoo, his tolerance has limits.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages you had.”
Has nick ever really had adventages at all?
“When I cane back from The East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged …show more content…
Despite his claims of scornfulness, he infinitely and questionably titles his book as “The Great Gatsby”. This leads one to inquire as to if Nick is honest to himself in his relation to Gatsby, and if he only makes such claims to stay true to the feigned sense of reserve in his judgment. This brings one to wonder what Nick Carraway truly sees in Jay Gatsby, and if his stay in East Egg inadvertently caused him to reevaluate the advice he has kept in his consciousness for so
Nick Carraway: Negatively Capable or not?
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a character that prides himself on his ability to “reserve all judgment” in life with the endeavor to pursue and maintain the negatively capable persona that he has been fabricating over the years. On many occasions Nick tends to contradict himself and invalidate his claims of being “one of the few tolerant people left in society”. On more than one occasion, Nick has been shown to contradict himself, and leads one to wonder to what extent his negative capability reaches. The way he experiences emotions and expresses opinions; Nick sees himself as unique in the sense that his revelations aren’t “plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppression," as he does not allow biases and prejudices to affect the way in which he concocts ideas organically. Yet even on his elevated pedestal overlooking those in the lower zoo, his tolerance has limits.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages you had.”
Has nick ever really had adventages at all?
“When I cane back from The East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged …show more content…
Despite his claims of scornfulness, he infinitely and questionably titles his book as “The Great Gatsby”. This leads one to inquire as to if Nick is honest to himself in his relation to Gatsby, and if he only makes such claims to stay true to the feigned sense of reserve in his judgment. This brings one to wonder what Nick Carraway truly sees in Jay Gatsby, and if his stay in East Egg inadvertently caused him to reevaluate the advice he has kept in his consciousness for so