Theme Of Friendship In The Great Gatsby

Friendships are important to build because they help people to become better and stronger individuals. Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, builds a strong friendship with Mr. Gatsby throughout the book. Nick and Gatsby live next to each other and meet one another for the first time at a party and become good friends from there. In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows that Nick and Gatsby develop a true friendship through the things that they do for each other. In the beginning of the book, Nick and Gatsby’s friendship isn’t a true friendship. Their friendship wasn’t as strong as it needed to be a real friendship. They didn’t know each other before the party, which Nick was invited to through Gatsby’s butler. Nick finally meets Gatsby at his party. When Nick meets Gatsby, “[Gatsby] smiled understandingly…[he believed] believe in [Nick] as [he] would like to believe [himself], [assured him] that it had precisely that …show more content…
Nick and Gatsby drive into town together, and Gatsby starts to talk about his life story. As Gatsby is talking, “he reached in his pocket and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into [Nick’s] palm”(66). Gatsby shows Nick his medal from the war. Gatsby later in the chapter states that he went to Oxford. This is important that Gatsby says this because he is telling Nick about his past and it builds their trust. More and more Nick starts to believe Gatsby, and Nick is drawn in even closer than before. Nick soon meets Mr. Wolfsheim, who is Gatsby work partner. Nick realizes that Gatsby is letting Nick into his life, which helps build trust. Nick later sets up a meeting for Gatsby to meet Daisy. Even though Nick doesn’t get anything in return, he does this because he is trying to help his friend Gatsby out. Through this part of the book, Nick starts to get to know Gatsby better, building their relationship stronger than ever