A person may easily be able to judge between a truth and a lie just by looking into someone's eyes, but how can you judge fact from fiction by merely reading a book? An honest narrator is typically very good at making themselves sound great, as well as also being the essential key for aiding to a reader's understanding of the novel. Gatsby may be the name in the title, but Nick Caraway is the main character. James Gatz (“Gatsby”) is one of the most simple characters in the book, but that is only once you put together the pieces of him in which you gather all throughout the novel. Nick on the other hand, is plain, straight-forward, and “honest”, but he also ends up being the novel's most interesting character. Nick has a great transformation
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First, he is too deeply involved in relationships and events. Therefore, he is very biased: he is more sympathetic towards Gatsby, and negatively sarcastic towards Tom Buchanan, because of Tom's oppressive attitude towards him. Nick's positive attitude towards Gatsby is well identified by this quote: “They're a rotten crowd … You're worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Here, Nick compliments Gatsby and places him above the normal crowd. On the other hand, he is not very approving or even understanding of Tom Buchanan. He described him of giving off an “impression of fractiousness” (Fitzgerald 7). Nick's overly-contrasting views towards two major characters might have just influenced the way he described events. When I came back from the East last autumn, I felt that I wanted the world to be uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more …show more content…
Nick says that he does not want to deal with the immaturity of the high society people that he had be hanging around with, but he excluded Gatsby from that scorn. Why was that? Maybe because in the end, Nick and Gatsby are not all that different. Both of them want access to a world that they were not born into; both of them came into their wealth by falling in social class first. But in all actuality, who is Nick Caraway? Is he a morally honest narrator, who gave us an unbiased look into the consequences of unrelenting wealth? Or is he untrustworthy, blinded by his love of money and glamor? Did he learn anything from his experiences? I am not sure about the first question, but I know about the last. Nick exposed Gatsby's obsession with fantasy. The Daisy in which he loved no longer existed, and trying to reach back five years had “killed” him. Do you think that this lesson would make Nick wary of repeatedly returning to the past? Do you think he would have written an entire book about it? He may want to return to the West in the end, return to the way things were when he moved West. Unfortunately, though, it looks like he may never be able to return home
First, he is too deeply involved in relationships and events. Therefore, he is very biased: he is more sympathetic towards Gatsby, and negatively sarcastic towards Tom Buchanan, because of Tom's oppressive attitude towards him. Nick's positive attitude towards Gatsby is well identified by this quote: “They're a rotten crowd … You're worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Here, Nick compliments Gatsby and places him above the normal crowd. On the other hand, he is not very approving or even understanding of Tom Buchanan. He described him of giving off an “impression of fractiousness” (Fitzgerald 7). Nick's overly-contrasting views towards two major characters might have just influenced the way he described events. When I came back from the East last autumn, I felt that I wanted the world to be uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more …show more content…
Nick says that he does not want to deal with the immaturity of the high society people that he had be hanging around with, but he excluded Gatsby from that scorn. Why was that? Maybe because in the end, Nick and Gatsby are not all that different. Both of them want access to a world that they were not born into; both of them came into their wealth by falling in social class first. But in all actuality, who is Nick Caraway? Is he a morally honest narrator, who gave us an unbiased look into the consequences of unrelenting wealth? Or is he untrustworthy, blinded by his love of money and glamor? Did he learn anything from his experiences? I am not sure about the first question, but I know about the last. Nick exposed Gatsby's obsession with fantasy. The Daisy in which he loved no longer existed, and trying to reach back five years had “killed” him. Do you think that this lesson would make Nick wary of repeatedly returning to the past? Do you think he would have written an entire book about it? He may want to return to the West in the end, return to the way things were when he moved West. Unfortunately, though, it looks like he may never be able to return home