Abstract
This three-page paper presents a discussion and character analysis about one of the characters in "The Great Gatsby". The author of this paper describes Nick Carraway to us and we are taken through a journey in which we explore his mind and motives for his actions throughout the story. We are also treated to a discussion about the type of person Carraway is.

Abstract
In "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway describes himself as moral and honest. This paper considers how far this opinion of himself is borne out by his view of the events in the novel and the part he plays in them. It looks at how, as the narrator of the story, it is through Nick's eyes that that readers are able to form opinions of the other characters and of Nick himself. It further examines how, as the novel progresses, we learn that Nick's opinion of himself may prove untrue and how his judgment does not remain static, but in fact develops as he interacts with the other characters in the novel.

From the Paper
"Henry Claridge observes how 'Fitzgerald employs [Nick] to tell Gatsby's story and to provide a context for the events he witnesses.' Having Nick tell the story enables Fitzgerald to disclose information in the order which he so desires, principally inhibiting the reader from forming any possibly negative judgements about Gatsby's character having initially learned of any of his illicit dealings before knowing the person behind the facade. Nick's philanthropic inclinations his 'combination of receptiveness and detachment' means that he is the only character who qualifies as a reliable narrator.' The fact that human erring is inevitable requires that 'Like Nick, we have a responsibility- not to give unquestioning acceptance to Gatsby's fiction, but to accord it in the dignity of serious consideration.' It must also remain in our minds that the language employed by Nick to describe characters and events manipulates the way in which we as readers react to such things. Gatsby is first beheld as being enigmatic: Without having spoken to Gatsby, Nick receives an invitation to one of his parties. "

Tags:narrator, Daisy, Tom

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This paper examines how an integral character in the novel "The Great Gatsby" is Nick Carraway and how as a symbol of purity and honesty, Nick's role in the story is essential to the development of the novel through his narrative, his growth as a character and his relationship with the other characters. It looks at how he invariably grows as an individual because of the circumstances and friendships that surround his life and how those characters who helped in his maturity are Gatsby himself, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker.

From the Paper
"Another key character in the novel was Jordan Baker. Jordan was Daisy's friend from Louisville. It was through Jordan that Nick received most of his information. Nick and Jordan were also romantically involved. She told Nick about Daisy and Gatsby's romance in Louisville and that Tom was having an affair with another woman. It was for this reason that Nick agreed to arrange a meeting between Daisy and Gatsby. If it was alright for Tom to cheat, why couldn't Daisy do the same - especially when the man is a gentleman like Gatsby? Everyone saw Nick as a friend and an honest person. It was through these relationships that he would grow and develop as a person. He would eventually be able to open his eyes to the reality around him and learn from their mistakes."

Tags:tom, daisy, narrator

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This paper examines how Nick Carraway serves both as a narrator and a character in "The Great Gatsby" who by end of the story has discovered the moral bankruptcy of his erstwhile friends and has failed to achieve the financial success he desired. It looks at how Nick's failure allows Fitzgerald to express his own disillusionment with the 1920s version of the American Dream and to depict the emptiness of the upper classes of that time.

From the Paper
"As Nick arrives at West Egg, the young Minnesotan partially describes his own moral code and that of his father. He is explicitly scornful of Gatsby's way of life and the morality that Gatsby represents, but shows himself already to be susceptible to the allure of the fast life he is about to enter when he releases Gatsby from his moral judgment due to Gatsby's "gorgeous personality." As the book proceeds, Gatsby lures Nick deeper into his world and closer to his amorality. Before the events surrounding Gatsby and Tom's confrontation at the Plaza and the ensuing automobile accident, Nick has been almost completely taken in by Gatsby's glamorous lifestyle and moral decadence. "

Tags:tom, daisy, american, dream

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The paper describes how Nick seems desperate to believe in Gatsby and he romanticizes the affair between Gatsby and Daisy, always making excuses for both of the lovers. The paper further points out how Nick's class prejudice is evident in the way that he presents Gatsby's father and Myrtle, Tom's lower-class lover. The paper explains that Nick is a product of his class who values wealth, but he also has romantic and literary leanings that are satisfied by the courtship and apparently star-crossed pairing of Gatsby and Daisy. The paper shows how this book reflects both of these biases in Nick's voice, although not in Fitzgerald's overall presentation.

From the Paper
"Nick, despite his staid occupation in finance, admits to a certain amount of romanticism in his character, early in the book, a trait that will give rise to his eventual lionization of Gatsby. "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction [of disgust]--Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn" because Gatsby had "was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again" (Fitzgerald 6). It is a tribute to Fitzgerald's skill as a writer that Gatsby's tackiness and the foolishness of Gatsby's love for Daisy shines through the romanticism that clouds Nick's reporting of events. Nick occasionally views Gatsby, and frequently presents other characters, with a great deal of irony, but Fitzgerald also subjects Nick's perspective to the same sort of ironic judgment.
"The beginning of The Great Gatsby largely unfolds as a fact-finding mission about Gatsby, conducted by Nick. When he attends one of Gatsby's parties, Nick is alternatively told that Gatsby is a spy, was in the army--and also that Gatsby is a fraud, a claim that seems born out by Gatsby's choice of the less fashionable West Egg in Long Island, the 'new money' section of town. Gatsby's lavish parties and unread library of books all indicate he has more wealth than class, despite his protestations he went to the best schools and his family once had money."

Tags:lovers, Daisy, romanticism, prejudice

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The paper analyzes how Nick and Gatsby are constructed throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". The paper focuses on these characters' apparent opposition in terms of character and goals and ultimately argues that they are not necessarily opposite but complementary.

From the Paper
""The Great Gatsby" was first published on April 10, 1925, and is regarded as Fitzgerald's literary triumph, and an American masterpiece. The novel depicts the story of a boy who pursues his dream and in the process, transforms himself into the image of success, and captures the essence of "an anguished and hopelessly romantic hero." (Pelzer 77) The story Fitzgerald constructed around the American dream is in fact the story of America. His dream is the center of the novel, and becomes corrupted by money and "betrayed by carelessness" (Idem). In this sense, Gatsby's failures and successes are America's failures and successes, and this makes him an iconic figure in American literature. Nick Carraway is a young man from Minnesota who travels to New York City in 1922 to learn the bond business. He is revealed to the reader as the opposite of Gatsby, a reflective, kind-hearted and quiet man."

Tags:idealism, realism, Daisy, American, Dream, wealth

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Nick Carraway, the narrator, provides us with an honest and realistic portrait of this world. As a Midwesterner, he is not impressed with the east's values and, therefore, does not become deluded by them. Indeed, Nick is clearly the only honest person in the novel. While one must be a little skeptical, since Nick also has his own subjective views, we can see that the narrator is preoccupied with telling us the truth.

Tags:the, great, gatsby

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The paper relates that in this news story, the press is trying to get the government to do more. The article reports on a release of chemicals into the environment and notes that the science discussed in the report is accurate. The character and place names are drawn from "The Great Gatsby."

From the Paper
"In a serious environmental incident occurring today, sulfuric acid was released into the Carraway River eight miles south of Faye City. The release occurred as a result of an industrial accident at the Gatsby Sand and Gravel Plant, formerly Ministry Gravel Production Facility # 16. According to plant safety manager, Thomas Buchanan, some 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid was released, most of it flowing into the river where it runs by the facility. The incident was immediately reported to both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Information, to ensure that the public is aware of the..."

Tags:environment, press, regime

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The paper analyzes how the narrator of "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway, influences the reader's perception of the characters and serves to highlight the novel's theme of disillusionment. The paper explains why Nick is the ideal vantage point to view this story; he is the least involved member of the action, the most rational, and he displays a wisdom and introspection unlike any of the other characters. The paper concludes by pointing out the main lesson to be learned from "The Great Gatsby", that is that humans are too good at fooling themselves about what they want and need to secure happiness.

From the Paper
"The Great Gatsby is an essentially American novel; it describes the clash of classes and values that can only occur when a rigorously stratified society pretends to be egalitarian, and some people buy it. It is of some surprise, then, that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this novel in France (Bruccoli, par. 12). Perhaps he needed distance from the whirlwind introduction he had had to the world of money and literary acclaim. It had been only four years since "This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920, made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight," and Gatsby was his third published novel (Bruccoli, par. 8). He had also found the time to write a failed play and many commercially successful short stories (Bruccoli). Despite entering the world literary stage with a swagger, he no doubt was dazed by the pressures and pace of his life of success."

Tags:happiness, disillusionment, wealth, status, greed

From the Paper
"This study will compare and contrast the characters of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. The thrust of the paper will be that despite the superficial differences between the two, there are many more similarities than differences. The two characters come from the same essential mold. Both are self-deluded romantics who have bought the American Dream lock, stock, and barrel, see themselves as superior to all around them, have at their core a self-loathing and profound insecurity, and in the end pursue illusion over the truth at all costs.

The great difference between the two characters is that Gatsby lives his life with not a drop of denial or hypocrisy about his belief in the American Dream and his willingness to do whatever is necessary to make that dream his own, while Nick is a..."

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