Being unreliable means that you cannot be trusted. Having this trait is not a good thing, especially as a narrator. When you are an unreliable narrator, it makes it hard for the readers to actually know what is happening in the story since they cannot trust everything that the narrator is saying. In the book ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character ‘Nick Carraway’ is an unreliable narrator. He is an unreliable because here is many instances of him lying throughout the course of the story. The biggest lie that nick tells the readers, is in the beginning of the book when he states that he is inclined to reserve all judgements. This is a lie because there are many examples of him making judgements throughout the book. He judges
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This is a lie because there is evidence of Nick lying throughout the entire book. One of the lies that Nick tells is when he meets Gatsby’s father Mr Henry Gatz. He lies and tells Henry that Gatsby did not tell him definitely that his parents were dead, even though at the beginning of the book Gatsby says to him “My family all died and I came into a great deal of money” (Fitzgerald, 65). “The problems with Nick as narrator are similar to the problems with Nick as moral center. The personal characteristics that have caused readers to distrust his moral vision are connected to the qualities that invite the reader's distrust for the accuracy of some narrative judgments: his impressionability in the car ride sequence, his confusing ambivalence during the tour of Gatsby's mansion, his self-serving proprieties surrounding the funeral. Nick's judgments, however, seem to harden in disillusionment even as the fable's ambiguities compound” (Cartwright, 11). This shows that Nick does make up many lies during the course of the story, making it obvious that he is not an obvious person.
After knowing that Nick is caught telling many lies throughout the book, it is clear to see that he is an unreliable narrator. When he tells the readers that he does not judge people, he is lying because he does it many times throughout the book He is also
This is a lie because there is evidence of Nick lying throughout the entire book. One of the lies that Nick tells is when he meets Gatsby’s father Mr Henry Gatz. He lies and tells Henry that Gatsby did not tell him definitely that his parents were dead, even though at the beginning of the book Gatsby says to him “My family all died and I came into a great deal of money” (Fitzgerald, 65). “The problems with Nick as narrator are similar to the problems with Nick as moral center. The personal characteristics that have caused readers to distrust his moral vision are connected to the qualities that invite the reader's distrust for the accuracy of some narrative judgments: his impressionability in the car ride sequence, his confusing ambivalence during the tour of Gatsby's mansion, his self-serving proprieties surrounding the funeral. Nick's judgments, however, seem to harden in disillusionment even as the fable's ambiguities compound” (Cartwright, 11). This shows that Nick does make up many lies during the course of the story, making it obvious that he is not an obvious person.
After knowing that Nick is caught telling many lies throughout the book, it is clear to see that he is an unreliable narrator. When he tells the readers that he does not judge people, he is lying because he does it many times throughout the book He is also