The Story teller
Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick is used as an unconventional narrator who partakes in the novel by retelling his experiences in 1922 New York. It is shown that Fitzgerald uses Nick as an unwonted narrator by his mindset toward new people, his reliability, and his growth as a person as the story progresses.
Fitzgerald appliance Nick to tell the story of Gatsby because of the mindset towards the people he meets. Nick moves to the East for his passion to be part of his generation. Nick think the West is boring, stated “The Middle West seemed like the ragged edge of the universe”(3). Having Nick not be from the East enables him to be less attached to the characters in the story.This provides …show more content…
Nick makes his perspective a balanced medium between the rich and the poor. In the story the main characters were either born rich like Tom and Daisy or, born poor like Gatsby and the Wilsons. Having Nick as an outcast by being in the middle class society allows the story a complete scope of the characters. Letting Nick have an objective opinion between the rich and the poor enables the reader to interpret each character on a well established ground, thus making Nick more of reliable person to tell the story than any other character. Not only is Nick’s mindset on the social class impartial but he grants enlightenment about the other characters backgrounds and emotions, enabling Fitzgerald to tell the entire story while leaving most of it openminded. In the novel Nick stated that he holds himself to high standards. “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”(59). Throughout this book Nick tries to tell the whole truth of the story as tolerantly as possible. Unlike the other characters who could have left out some specifics and given more of their bias opinions, leaving no room for the reader to interpret each character without having that …show more content…
Nick at the start of the novel thought that the West was boring, but toward the end concluded that he was wrong. Nick said: That’s my Middle west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth...I am part of that, a little solemn with the feeling of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city dwelling are still called through the decades by a family family’s.I now see now that this has been a story of the West, after all - Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I , were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadapted to Eastern life.(176)
Nick finally realizes that the East style of life is careless and that they made others clean up their messes. He realized that Daisy was not as pure as he thought. Daisy, in the beginning of the book, was mesmerising to Nick. He learned that she was reckless and that she did not care if people got hurt as long as she was getting her way. Daisy choose Tom over Gatsby when she was younger and then again at the end. She again picked money over truth. At the end Nick did not want any part of being part of a society where people could care less about the wellbeing of others. Not only did he learn the harsh reality of human behavior but he grew as a
Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick is used as an unconventional narrator who partakes in the novel by retelling his experiences in 1922 New York. It is shown that Fitzgerald uses Nick as an unwonted narrator by his mindset toward new people, his reliability, and his growth as a person as the story progresses.
Fitzgerald appliance Nick to tell the story of Gatsby because of the mindset towards the people he meets. Nick moves to the East for his passion to be part of his generation. Nick think the West is boring, stated “The Middle West seemed like the ragged edge of the universe”(3). Having Nick not be from the East enables him to be less attached to the characters in the story.This provides …show more content…
Nick makes his perspective a balanced medium between the rich and the poor. In the story the main characters were either born rich like Tom and Daisy or, born poor like Gatsby and the Wilsons. Having Nick as an outcast by being in the middle class society allows the story a complete scope of the characters. Letting Nick have an objective opinion between the rich and the poor enables the reader to interpret each character on a well established ground, thus making Nick more of reliable person to tell the story than any other character. Not only is Nick’s mindset on the social class impartial but he grants enlightenment about the other characters backgrounds and emotions, enabling Fitzgerald to tell the entire story while leaving most of it openminded. In the novel Nick stated that he holds himself to high standards. “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”(59). Throughout this book Nick tries to tell the whole truth of the story as tolerantly as possible. Unlike the other characters who could have left out some specifics and given more of their bias opinions, leaving no room for the reader to interpret each character without having that …show more content…
Nick at the start of the novel thought that the West was boring, but toward the end concluded that he was wrong. Nick said: That’s my Middle west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth...I am part of that, a little solemn with the feeling of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city dwelling are still called through the decades by a family family’s.I now see now that this has been a story of the West, after all - Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I , were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadapted to Eastern life.(176)
Nick finally realizes that the East style of life is careless and that they made others clean up their messes. He realized that Daisy was not as pure as he thought. Daisy, in the beginning of the book, was mesmerising to Nick. He learned that she was reckless and that she did not care if people got hurt as long as she was getting her way. Daisy choose Tom over Gatsby when she was younger and then again at the end. She again picked money over truth. At the end Nick did not want any part of being part of a society where people could care less about the wellbeing of others. Not only did he learn the harsh reality of human behavior but he grew as a