Analysis Of Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby

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Nick Carraway the narrator and also one of the main characters in The Great Gatsby. Throughout the first two chapters we see that Nick is very different from most of the other characters in The Great Gatsby who are very shallow and do not care much about people other than themselves. Instead Nick is very tolerant of the way everyone acts and their ideals, he is also very open minded, an example of this is that even though he is disgusted by the lifestyle that the other characters live he still gives living that lifestyle a chance. Along with being tolerant and open minded, Nick is also very quiet and because of this he does not like to participate much in a lot of the events in the story, instead he watches what goes on and describes what he sees. …show more content…

Nick Carraway grew up in Minnesota learning to value hard work and perseverance, two values that most of the characters in The Great Gatsby except for Jay Gatsby greatly lack in. As a result of this Nick does not really like or get along with people like the Buchanans and instead gets along with Jay Gatsby who was grew up with some of the same values as Nick. Nick is the narrator of the Great Gatsby and because of this his character and values matter to our understanding of the story because how he views the events of story and how the other characters live and act also affects how we see the story. Since Nick prefers not to be a major participant in most of the events that occur and instead likes to just watch what happen he gives us a very detailed description of what the happens which adds on to what we the audience