Nick Carraway-Personal Narrative

For years, I had imagined Daisy and I reuniting. I tried to imagine each foreseeable outcome down to the last excruciating detail. At this stage, I had become the man I was convinced was what she wanted me to be. I had a big and beautiful home, and education and most importantly, money. Although I had almost everything I needed to have her back, there was something that I did not have. That is a reason. Surely it would have been rather impolite for me, a more than slightly altered version of a man from her past, to knock on her door in hopes of us picking up where we had left off five years prior. Then, by a stroke of luck, Nick Carraway had moves into the house next door to my own. Nick might have been Daisy’s cousin, but he was a rather simple man. He was of old money, yet he did not give off the impression of arrogance that a majority of those who come from the same situation do. He was plain in just about every way, the only striking part about him being his knowing eyes. His hair was combed down in what was the most popular hairstyle at the time, and his suit was rather minimalistic. Sometimes I had wondered if he knew just how rich he was, or perhaps he was so confident in himself that he did not feel the need to show himself off. Regardless, he didn’t seem to have many opinions. He did not judge me when I explained my past to him, he simply listened to my story with few questions in between. …show more content…
In reality, however, I did not even have the courage to ask Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy directly. I had to ask him through the woman he had been dating at the time, Jordan Baker, indirectly. If I was too afraid to ask a man with no opinions to do this for me, in fear of judgement, how would I be able to hand meeting with Daisy