Thinking back to the second paragraph of The Great Gatsby when the narrator, Nick Carroway, is remembering what his father used to always tell him about judging people, you realize that throughout the whole book Nick did not once judge Gatsby. Even when all of the rumors about Gatsby killing someone, or about him going to Oxford, or about him being related to someone famous, were going around, Nick never got sucked into the drama; He didn’t believe a word until it came out of Gatsby’s mouth. Also, when Gatsby had his extravagant parties that everybody went to, people assumed that he did it just to show off his money. The only person that didn’t automatically judge and come to a conclusion about Gatsby, was Nick. Gatsby and Nick relate to larger
