The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a man named Nick Carraway, who meets and befriends the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, Nick becomes entangled in Gatsby 's life, which changes his own without him even realizing it. Even though this is a high drama novel and many of the characters change, Nick Carraway was impacted the most by the events of the novel. The way in which Nick was impacted the most is represented in the changing of his personality. These changes were due to his close relationships to both Daisy and Gatsby, and also by relocating from his small rural town to the east coast. Nick was quiet, friendly, non judgement almost passive man when he moved to New York, but in the few months he spent there he realized things about himself and the people there which lead him moving back home.Nick before moving to New York was a simple, stay at home guy when he first goes out with Tom was when he was first forced to let loose and have fun with that group of people. While Nick is at the party he says to us, “ I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second was that afternoon…”( Fitzgerald 29). Nick never really had time or opportunity to do this type of stuff when he was home he was more about working like he is now but Tom forces him out with him and is peer pressured into drinking and letting loose with a bunch of strangers that Tom has with them. This is when Nick is almost overwhelmed with what happens in that afternoon he