So We Beat On
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Nick Carraway was originally from from the upper Midwest. He moved to West Egg and that is where he first met Jay Gatsby, a wealthy ambitious young man, trying to capture Daisy Buchanan's attention after. Some people would interpret Nick’s favoritism for Jay as unreliable, but really Nick understood Gatsby. He saw the good qualities and the bad in Jay. He understood all of them and who they were. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick is a very reliable character because he is unjudgemental, he links everyone together, and he writes from a neutral viewpoint.
When Nick was younger his father gave him …show more content…
“After two years I remember the rest of the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby’s front door” (Fitzgerald 163). It has been quite a while since all of these things had taken place. Nick has had time to for his feelings for everyone to neutralize so he can tell the most precise account of what happened. After two years, Nick has no bias feelings and can give reliable and trusted information. A counter argument might be that Nick could have forgotten details and what he is saying could be blurred by time but, what had happened in those months were unforgettable to Nick. At the end of the book, Fitzgerald delivers a very poetic account of Gatsby and life. “It’s vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presences of the continent, compelled with an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder” (Fitzgerald 180). Nick has put a lot of thought and took a lot from what happened. He takes Gatsby and his dream and gives a clear image of mankind, their weakness for the past. Nick, as the narrator of this story, put a lot of time and effort into what he believed about Gatsby and the world he lived
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Nick Carraway was originally from from the upper Midwest. He moved to West Egg and that is where he first met Jay Gatsby, a wealthy ambitious young man, trying to capture Daisy Buchanan's attention after. Some people would interpret Nick’s favoritism for Jay as unreliable, but really Nick understood Gatsby. He saw the good qualities and the bad in Jay. He understood all of them and who they were. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick is a very reliable character because he is unjudgemental, he links everyone together, and he writes from a neutral viewpoint.
When Nick was younger his father gave him …show more content…
“After two years I remember the rest of the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby’s front door” (Fitzgerald 163). It has been quite a while since all of these things had taken place. Nick has had time to for his feelings for everyone to neutralize so he can tell the most precise account of what happened. After two years, Nick has no bias feelings and can give reliable and trusted information. A counter argument might be that Nick could have forgotten details and what he is saying could be blurred by time but, what had happened in those months were unforgettable to Nick. At the end of the book, Fitzgerald delivers a very poetic account of Gatsby and life. “It’s vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presences of the continent, compelled with an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder” (Fitzgerald 180). Nick has put a lot of thought and took a lot from what happened. He takes Gatsby and his dream and gives a clear image of mankind, their weakness for the past. Nick, as the narrator of this story, put a lot of time and effort into what he believed about Gatsby and the world he lived