How Does Nick Change Throughout The Great Gatsby

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Nick moves to New York into a small house next to Gatsby. He moved to New York to follow the american dream and make a lot of money, but he doesn't do that because he starts hanging out with people who aren't good examples and make him forget about working and just hang out with them before he had friends Nick goes and hangs out with his cousin daisy's husband Tom. But Nick quickly realizes that Tom is cheating on daisy with another girl, but nick doesn't say anything because he doesn't want to hurt daisy and have friends. As the time keeps passing nick is getting more and more friends and starts to fit in and doing what everyone else is doing. He starts to go to gatsby's parties and hanging out with lots of rich people.nicl gets a girlfriend who is a professional golfer and who is rich. Towards the middle of the novel and the end Nick stops going to parties and hanging out with all the rich people, all of the people Nick has been hanging out with are always talking bad about each other and showing no respect towards anyone. So nick remembers what his dad told him .“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in …show more content…

It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (9.136-145). Nick doesn't like Tom or Daisy and more because of what they did to all the people around them. Gatsby was dead because of what Tom and daisy did, they were the reason that gatsby was dead and they don't even care. Rich people only think of themselves. Nick doesn't want to be apart of that