Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

A first-person narrator gives us a different perspective on a story by altering our understanding through their own viewpoint. In F. In Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway’s role serves as a first-person storyteller and a conscience, sharing the important events of the book as well as his thoughts and feelings throughout his journey in New York. While some might argue that Nick Carraway is a reliable narrator due to his unique perspectives and observations, Nick manipulates the reader's perspective of the details, forcing us to question the truth behind specific characters and events in the novel. Nick Carraway's unreliability is evident due to his selective judgments and biases, which weaken his reliability and cause him to

He is narrating this scene internally, giving us his real thoughts and feelings about them without trying to sugarcoat it. Throughout the book, Nick describes Tom and Daisy as entitled and selfish people who have no regrets whatsoever, while he praises Gatsby because of his charming personality. Because of Gatsby’s self-made success and his rough past, Nick sympathizes with him, and portrays him as a genuine person. His relationship with Gatsby also plays an important factor in his biased opinions because of their closeness, whereas his relationship with Daisy and Tom is strained due to his harsh depictions of them. Additionally, Nick chooses to ignore the parts of the story where Gatsby shares equal responsibility for the chaos that was created. Such as asking Nick to invite his married, past lover over for tea so he can revive their past relationship, unbothered about the consequences that later on were presented in the novel. Rather, Nick chooses to focus on the negative aspects of Tom and Daisy's role in Gatsby's death, such as being ‘inconsiderate’ which twists the reader's understanding of their personalities into the way he negatively views

Examples include Tom breaking Myrtle's nose, the elevator ride with Mr. Mckee, and Nick randomly ending up at the Pennsylvania train station, all of which we only got a small bit of knowledge from of the scene. Nick Carraway got drunk because he wanted to be able to put up with people at the party, but it heavily backfired for his narrative role because of his selective memory throughout. Moreover, by falsely narrating these two events, Nick provides an unclear and biased understanding of these incidents in the novel, limiting the reader's knowledge about certain details, and illustrating his lack of reliability as a narrator. Throughout the previous body paragraphs, we have established both Nick’s reliability and unreliability when put in certain situations. His narration can only be trusted to the extent of him describing concrete actions and scenery in the book. Like when he describes Gatsby's desires and hopes based on the obvious actions and conversations Gatsby shares about Daisy with him. As well as his detailed observations at Gatsby’s