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Examples Of Judgement In The Great Gatsby

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What does it mean to reserve judgment completely? In The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, Nick claims he waits to form an opinion until he fully knows them. The novel is set during the 1920s in New York. Nick Carroway and his new neighbor Jay Gatsby live in the West Egg. While Nick’s cousin Daisy and her husband Tom live in the East Egg, directly across from Gatsby. Gatsby tries to rekindle his and Daisy’s old relationship by trying to relive the past while Tom is out having an affair. Nick is a people watcher, he observes anyone and everyone and gets to know them before he feels inclined to make a judgment. To start, Nick reserves judgment in multiple situations but the first example is when he meets Gatsby and is at his party. Nick was the only person invited but at the party, he heard rumors about Gatsby …show more content…

Rumors that stated, “...he’s a bootlegger…” or that,”...he killed a man.” (pg 61). With this information, he could have easily judged Gatsby and viewed him differently. But he didn’t and waits until he knows him and then at the very end makes the decision that Gatsby is great. Nick wanted to have all the information he could have because he did not want to judge someone on something untrue. Moving forward, Nick reserves judgment again with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. After Daisy killed Myrtle in Gatsby’s car and then found out Gatsby died she and her husband fled the city. With that information and everything else Nick had learned over time by being with them, Nick concluded that “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-- they smashed up things” (pg 179). Nick did not make this judgment on them until after they came back. He had known the couple for a while before he came to this decision because he did not want to judge them until they came back and he had a conversation with the two. Nick was

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Nick is not going to be a good person for helping Gatsby have an affair with Tom’s wife Daisy. Tom doesn’t know that Nick is helping Gatsby so what he is doing is going unnoticed, but in general, the kind of favors Nick is doing for Gatsby does not make him a good person. Nick might think as a person he is just an innocent bystander but he is the whole reason everything happened the way it did, like the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy, the death of Gatsby, etc. Tom might not know Nick is all behind this meeting but to Tom, Nick is a reliable person an example of this is when Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, Nick is tagging along because Tom just assumes Nick is reliable proven in the quote on page 28, “There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” At this point Tom knows Nick won’t tell otherwise this wouldn’t have

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Amanda Michleski English III CP Guadagnino Gatsby Response Journal Chapter 1 Nick introduced himself before telling the story. He seems like he is not very close to his father and that he does not talk to him very much. He says he is not judgmental, since his dad advised him not to be. Even though he listened to his father, he discovers through his life that being judgmental, at least a bit, would be beneficial in certain situations if he was. Everyone wants to confide in Nick, and tell them their problems.

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“Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.” (John Sandford). In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the narrator Nick Carraway exposed to many careless people. The novel is about millionaire Jay Gatsby and is narrated by Nick who lives next to Gatsby, shortly Nick learns that Gatsby is in love Daisy which is Nick’s cousin Gatsby ask Nick to plan a meeting for him and Daisy soon after Gatsby and Daisy begin seeing each other.

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This realization comes at the end of the fiasco after Gatsby is dead, Daisy is gone, and Tom lives. Nick states "Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men" (6). Nick also figures out the disdain he has for the other people he meets and communicates with. His cousin Daisy

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Nick's assumption that Daisy should have left Tom and taken her child with her instead of staying with him is illustrated by this. Nick thought Daisy should have known that the best thing to do was to leave Tom and take her child with her. Numerous incidents in this chapter imply that Nick is presumptuous because he thinks Daisy should have left Tom and taken her child with her instead of sticking with him and preserving her reputation. While Nick's view of the situation can be seen as justified, he may have been too quick to judge Daisy's decision to stay with Tom and overlook the complications that may have come from her making such a drastic change in her life. The judgment that Nick placed on Daisy may be seen as unfair due to the lack of understanding he has towards the consequences of her leaving, for both herself and her

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The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates a morally ambiguous character that can’t be defined as strictly good or evil. Moral ambiguity is the driving force towards Gatsby’s actions. The character Gatsby demonstrates morally ambiguous qualities that initiate plot throughout the whole novel. Morally ambiguous choices can be viewed towards Gatsby’s character throughout the novel. The first glimpse of Gatsby is introduced in the first chapter while Nick is “exempting him from his reaction” of a “uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever” already placing Gatsby in a position of moral ambiguity (Fitzgerald 2).

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Nick was the only person Gatsby told about Daisy driving since Nick was the only person that Gatsby trusted in that moment. While Nick hated Gatsby for what he did, he still listened to him and Nick never said anything bad to Gatsby. Nick had so many huge secrets throughout the book, if he had let even a few of them out the entire plot of the story would be different and many people would end

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This instance makes him a very trustworthy character for everyone to be able to entrust their secrets with. Nick proceeds to describe himself as an honest person but saying how, “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (Fitzgerald 170) . Nick knows that he is an honest person and that goes into him being trustworthy. Throughout the book he kept Gatsby and Daisy's secrets and he never said anything about what was going on, even when Tom wanted to know.

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Nick’s idolization of Gatsby is evident. Because of this, Nick subconsciously turns the story in Gatsby’s favour and is quick to dismiss any other character’s perspective. Nick’s favouritism of Gatsby is evident when he states “Only Gatsby, the man who I give his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn,” (Fitzgerald 2). Nick’s feelings for Gatsby are complicated. Nick hates what Gatsby represents yet makes excuses for his misdeeds.

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to which Tom immediately tries to make excuses for why he told the man of gatsby and why he is now dead. Tom is said to have a defensive tone which makes it seem he is trying to guilt trip Nick. Doing so by talking of the grief he feels himself and how bad it made him feel to hear of Gatsby's death. As if to make reasons for his greed and why he did the things he did. Nick writes about how he feels about Daisy and Tom now and how he knows the way they see things their actions were justified and unselfish- stating that they can't see the truth to it all.

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Nick is also very judgmental on the way of Gatsby and Daisy's relationship, like it says Nick sets up Daisy and Gatsby so then Daisy sets Nick up with jordan. Also when nick and gatsby hang out nick makes gatsby show

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However, Nick doesn’t question the situation and even goes on to get as debauched as everyone else at the party. Nick’s “bystander complex” is further cemented when he sneaks out of the party amongst the chaos and spends the rest of it with McKee. Socially, Nick wasn’t in any position that would hinder him from offering to help Myrtle or even to stop Tom from abusing her. He was after all closest to Tom in

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Nick's recollection, which forms the narrative, might be influenced by the passage of time and emotions tied to the tragic end - Gatsby's death and Daisy's abandonment. Thus, despite his aspiration for honesty,

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What Nick is saying here is that all the talk about who Gatsby is and what he does is only making him more eager and curious to find out the truth. Gatsby is curious about Daisy. He wants to know all about her and have her for himself. Daisy is curious about Gatsby after the war because he never comes back. Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, starts to notice feelings between Gatsby and Daisy, which causes him to become curious of Gatsby’s intentions with his wife.

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This ends up being a good and bad thing for him. The second quote I picked for Nick was also in the beginning of the book. The quote is “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores…” (1) This quote outlines how Nick is aware that being non-judgemental can be a bad thing for him, and not assuming things about people sometimes causes issues in his life, which leads me on

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