How Is Nick Told In The Great Gatsby

There are various characters in The Great Gatsby. Not only that, there are quite a few main characters that have sufficient potential to narrate this novel. Gastby could have told his own story, going all the way back to when he felt like nothing. Or Jordan could have revealed all of the hidden information to us first-hand. If you want to go the route of Tom or Daisy taking over, they would show us all of the emotion they felt throughout the chaos of this story. However, Nick Carraway has some sort of advantage to telling this story that other characters don’t. Although Nick seemed as if he could have been more of a side character in this story, many trusted him, giving him the advantage of telling multiple stories at once. Gatsby was the man

Such was the day Nick met Gatsby for lunch and was introduced to Wolfsheim. Gatsby leaves the two alone at the table to talk while he goes on business, giving you a first look at Wolfsheim's opinion on Gatsby and what his personality is like. Fitzgerald has Nick ask about how long the two had known each other, segwaying into Wolfsheim, exposing the past, “I made the pleasure of his acquaintance just after war. But I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him for an hour. I said to myself: ‘There’s the kind of man you’d like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister.’”(48) This gives off the impression that he thinks Gatsby is a fine man, one of the better even. Most of the characters seem to have a weird relationship or opinion about him, whereas this line gives a sense of comfort, provoking the thought that Gatsby is a good man. If Nick were not the narrator, we wouldn’t have gotten this inside opinion. If Gatsby had been narrating and we heard things about him being a fine man it would be harder to believe considering people tend to talk highly of