The fast-paced, fun-driven New York lifestyle was something Nick longed for. He assumed moving to New York to achieve this would be enjoyable, that is until he experiences Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby’s lives. He was willing to do anything to fit into this lifestyle, but he loses his equilibrium because of it. He comes to find this New York lifestyle he craves is rather corrupting and ludicrous. Nick loses himself in the situations where he is too curious, overly indulged, or blinded by. By the end, he realize all that New York had to offer wasn’t anything he wanted after all. Curiosity was something Nick had too much of. He wanted to know what was going on and let in on all the secrets of other’s lives. He wanted to be able to experience what their
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It seems his purpose was to observe their lives and learn how to they prospered. He emotionally indulged himself in too many events of other’s lives that doesn’t involve him. When he introduced what he life in New York was like, he mentioned “I lived at West Egg, a forgotten groundskeeper’s cottage squeezed among the mansions of the newly rich.” (The Great Gatsby, Luhrmann). This quote explains how he squeezed himself into situations where he didn’t belong. He wasn’t asked to be involved rather he made himself involved. There was a photographer at the hotel party Nick and Tom went too, and he took pictures of everything that was happening. Nick resembles the photographer because how involved he was in everyone’s life but doesn’t belong. Like the photographer he lurks among the events to observe and document. One way he failed to represent a photographer is that they stay in the background; this is something Nick failed at and doing the complete opposite. Nick was with Daisy the first time she went to Gatsby’s house. Nick knows more about Daisy and Gatsby than anyone else, and that was because Gatsby includes Nick in their relationship. Nick stands on a balcony watching Daisy and Gatsby, and he closes the curtain in front of him, trying to exclude himself. Also as the green light fades away, shows Nick trying to exclude himself once he learned too much. His involvement in everyone’s life brought him no good, so in the end he evades himself from everything he was too involved
It seems his purpose was to observe their lives and learn how to they prospered. He emotionally indulged himself in too many events of other’s lives that doesn’t involve him. When he introduced what he life in New York was like, he mentioned “I lived at West Egg, a forgotten groundskeeper’s cottage squeezed among the mansions of the newly rich.” (The Great Gatsby, Luhrmann). This quote explains how he squeezed himself into situations where he didn’t belong. He wasn’t asked to be involved rather he made himself involved. There was a photographer at the hotel party Nick and Tom went too, and he took pictures of everything that was happening. Nick resembles the photographer because how involved he was in everyone’s life but doesn’t belong. Like the photographer he lurks among the events to observe and document. One way he failed to represent a photographer is that they stay in the background; this is something Nick failed at and doing the complete opposite. Nick was with Daisy the first time she went to Gatsby’s house. Nick knows more about Daisy and Gatsby than anyone else, and that was because Gatsby includes Nick in their relationship. Nick stands on a balcony watching Daisy and Gatsby, and he closes the curtain in front of him, trying to exclude himself. Also as the green light fades away, shows Nick trying to exclude himself once he learned too much. His involvement in everyone’s life brought him no good, so in the end he evades himself from everything he was too involved