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Examples Of Nick In The Great Gatsby

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Gatsby has a good statement but nick's statement the most realistic and true. Nick's attitude forwards things are more blunt or dull you could say, while Gatsby is full of life and sees endless possibilities. In chapter 6“ about nick “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” (6.6-7)This lets the reader know how his life has been and where his mind set comes from. Another quote is “His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was”… (6.132) he talks about Gatsby and how his life had reflected how he treats daisy. The way he treats her …show more content…

(9.152-153) nick says talking about Gatsby. He is exposing how Gatsby is different than him in a way, nick thinks different from him about life and how you can only go forward and not backwards. Gatsby Believes that you can always go back and fix or relive things while nick thinks otherwise.” He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car. (8.28)” this was nick talking about how Gatsby acted after daisy left him. Gatsby eventually thinks that he can make things right again as he continues to try new and old things to get her back. He had reached an age where death no longer. “He has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms, his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride. (9.40)” this could be a reason Gatsby believes in the way he does. Nick try to give a visual description on how his dad acted which may be part of the reason Gatsby is the way he is. Of course Gatsby has had a different life of course and nick can definitely tell . Nick has had a different life as well but he thinks logically and has a sense of awareness, unlike Gatsby he thinks he can fix things if you try hard no matter how bad the

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Near the beginning of The Great Gatsby Nick assumes these ideas that he has heard about Gatsby, he puts his initial trust into the ideas of others. As the novel goes on though and Nick meets Gatsby he learns much about the true character of Gatsby and his trust in Gatsby evolves. This is exemplified in the New Great Gatsby Movie during the scene where Nick is at Gatsby’s funeral and no one shows up except him. Nick was the only one who was brave enough to actually interact with Gatsby even with all of his preconceived notions of the man. This bravery and trust allowed for these notions to be tested and that gave Nick an even more trusting relationship with Gatsby.

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it has many moments that can be argued that Nick can be displeased with the people he surrounds himself with. Nick even states that Gatsby stands for everything he hates and despises about the rich he corresponds with but yet by the end Gatsby is the only one that Nick appreciates on some level. With an almost fleeting passage in The Great Gatsby though it clearly show that Gatsby had a glamor that secreted from him that Nick idolized but was slowly being squandered as he had ‘talked with him perhaps six times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. ’(pg 64) Nick then goes on to say that Gatsby started to lose the glamour that built up after the parties, especially the rumors he was told about how Gatsby came into his money.

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It is made clear to the reader that Nick gains quite an interest in Gatsby. He actually begins to become obsessed with him. The book states, “Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him… It 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.”

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He didn't even accept his own parents or any part of his past as his own. Gatsby’s past is full of lies, a life created from imagination that is not even real. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” [Nick] ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?”

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