What Is Nick's Companionship In The Novel The Great Gatsby?

The novel 'The Great Gatsby ' is a realistic fiction story made in the Modernism time period by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is told by the young Nick Carraway who has recently moved into West Egg. One day he receives an invitation from his rich neighbor, Jay Gatsby, to a party in his mansion. After arriving to the party and developing a friendship with Gatsby, Nick helps him in his attempts to win back the heart of his old lover, Daisy Buchanan. During the five years they have been apart, she has gotten married to a man named Tom Buchanan, but he has been having an affair that she is starting to become aware about. Gatsby ends up resorting to being deceitful towards Daisy, and Nick doesn 't stop him. The whole love triangle starts to become …show more content…
While having a discussion, Nick becomes confused when Gatsby starts to mention about how it took years until he earned the money to buy his mansion. 'I thought you inherited your money. ' 'I did, old sport, ' he said automatically, 'but I lost most of it in a big panic-the panic of the war. ' I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered 'That 's my affair, ' before he realized that it wasn 't an appropriate reply. "Oh, I 've been in several things, ' he corrected himself, 'I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I 'm not in either one now (Fitzgerald, 95). ' It seems as though no matter how much he tries to be truthful with Nick, revealing his origins is the equivalent of being in a courthouse. Gatsby refuses to speak about how he used to be in rags before being in riches, and always seems to quickly change the subject. He also seems to ignore the truth when it comes to Tom and Daisy’s marriage. When he pursuits in winning Daisy back, he convinces her that her husband is terrible and gets her to call him names such as revolting. ‘But when Gatsby takes the ultimate step of asking Daisy to tell Tom that she has never loved him, her immediate reaction makes clear that "she had never, all along, intended …show more content…
After it is revealed that Daisy was the one who ran over and killed Myrtle with a car, her more darker side starts to be depicted. ‘They weren 't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or ale-and yet they weren 't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said they were conspiring together (Fitzgerald, 153). ' This passage might be hinting towards the fact that Tom also knows what has happened, but it is revealed that he doesn’t know the whole truth. 'Daisy evidently allows Tom to believe that Gatsby was driving when Myrtle Wilson was killed. And when Tom encounters Myrtle 's husband, who is armed and deluded with grief into thinking that whoever ran over Myrtle had been her lover and had killed her deliberately, Tom directs him to Gatsby 's house. ' The Buchanans must have really been conspiring, and Tom 's grudge for Gatsby after attempting to steal his wife was not left ignored. He successful gets him killed by Myrtle 's unstable husband without laying as much as a hand on him. The reader could also assume from this that Daisy killed Myrtle on purpose for the same reason that Tom wanted Gatsby gone, or that she wanted both completely out of the picture so that they can fix their relationship. Despite the fact that they got the job done, the two now share an immoral atmosphere to their character