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If Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East.
- Chapter 1
Although he describes himself as tolerant and nonjudgmental,...
- Nick Carraway
In the first chapter, Nick describes his plan to teach...
- Jay Gatsby
Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this...
- Tom Buchanan
In Chapter 1 Nick posits that Tom has always sought to...
- Daisy Buchanan
Partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a...
- Jordan Baker
From her very first appearance in the novel, Jordan strikes...
- Chapter 1
A young man from Minnesota who has come to New York after graduating Yale and fighting in World War I, Nick is the neighbor of Jay Gatsby and the cousin of Daisy Buchanan. The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick describes himself as "one of the few honest people that [he has] ever known."
3 oct. 2024 · How does Nick describe himself at the start of The Great Gatsby? Nick describes himself as a "tolerant" person and one who reserves judgment, by which he means he both keeps his opinions...
The best way to analyze Nick himself is to choose a few passages to close read, and use what you observe from close-reading to build a larger argument. Pay close attention to moments, especially Nick's encounters with Jordan, that give you a glimpse at Nick's emotions and vulnerabilities.
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The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a young man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the books author. He begins by commenting on himself, stating that he learned from his father to reserve judgment about other people, because if he holds them up to his own moral standards, he will misunderstand th...
In the summer of 1922, Nick writes, he had just arrived in New York, where he moved to work in the bond business, and rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. Unlike the conservative, aristocratic East Egg, West Egg is home to the new rich, those who, having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the r...
Nick is unlike his West Egg neighbors; whereas they lack social connections and aristocratic pedigrees, Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. One night, he drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, a former member of Nicks social club at Yale. Tom, a powerful figure dressed i...
30 juil. 2011 · Nick begins the story by telling us that he does not pass judgment on people. He says it is a trait passed on to him by his father. Nick comes from an upper middle class background. His father used to tell him to remember the advantages he had before passing judgment.
Rather than playing the mercenary cynic that Nick portrays himself as, he is ultimately swept up in the same dreamy fantasy that Gatsby is. At the start of their acquaintance, Gatsby uses Nick...
