The Great Gatsby Loneliness Analysis

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is the only point of view we are given about the lives between these characters, Fitzgerald uses Nick as a way to establish the motif of loneliness by showing that even though Gatsby has everything one wishes for during this time, he is still deep down alone because he is surrounded by fake love and care; however, Nick himself is also isolating himself the most by not being involved and only being the observer. There are many moments throughout the book where loneliness is portrayed through the characters. Beginning with Gatsby. He is a very mysterious man, who constantly throws huge parties at his mansion, with tons of people he does not know. He is surrounded by many people all the time, yet deep …show more content…
He is viewing this world and pointing out the loneliness between all of these characters but at the end of each event, he is always “alone again in the unique darkness” (Fitzgerald). He stands apart from the others because he is just the observer, or the reporter. He is a part of the parties at Gatsby’s, Pennsylvania, and Myrtle’s apartment, yet he weakly tries to connect with anyone involved in these events. Nick views the world in a distorted way because he believes “life is much more successfully looked at from a single window” (Fitzgerald 14), and this is exactly how he going about his life. He is only judging what he sees and not getting involved with anything because he does not, and can not connect with this type of life. In his mind, he does not believe in wanting to make connections because it would put his guard down. He chooses to be an outsider, because there are zero efforts shown that he wants to connect with somebody on a deeper level other than just small talk. Through all of this, Nick is the most lonely in the book because of the amount of isolation he does to himself is