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Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby

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Judith Harris ones said "Personality is the entirety of characteristic forms of the thinking emotions and behavior of the individual person". Judith Harris a psychology professor states that a persons personality is formed by their emotions and behaviors that an individual person conveys. Scott Fitzgerald displayed the narrator/character Nick Carraway in The book The Great Gatsby as man who displayed compassion, character, and honesty. The personality and character that Nick Carraway displayed throughout the book is a person who stays true to their selves and is compassionate about other people's problems. Fitzgerald represents Nick Carraway as a man that embodies a unbelievablely amazing character that is shown through his personality. Nick …show more content…

Nick Carraway a dreamer and a man of character moved from the Midwest to New York, after the war ended to educate himself in the bond business, and hopefully make money. When he moved to New York Nick was caught in the middle of people with hollow and shallow morals. People around him like Tom was cheating on his wife, Jordan baker was dishonest, and daisy was guarded and sheltered from life. Nick on the other hand was a man who saw things in a different perspective he didn't get distaratced by the glitz or gossip or the negativity around him instead he was fullfilling his aspirations while learning about life and the challenges around him. In chapter four Meyer Wolshiem, said to Nick " I understand you're looking for a buisness gonnegtion", then when in chapter five when Gatsby asks Nick, "Why, I thought---why, look here, old sport, you don't make much money, do you?" Nick responded to Gatsby with a utter discomfort because he knows that Mayor Wolshiem is involved with illegal dealings and Nick does not need or want someone's money. From nicks reaction we can tell that he is feeling slightly insulted by this offer for his service in helping Gatsby and Daisy get together. We see that Nick is man that works hard and does not smooch of anybody or finess anybody just because he did one favor

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A young man named Nick Carraway who is immensely impressionable and taken advantage of narrates the Great Gatsby. Throughout the book, you learn that Nick is a follower. Nick follows Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Jay Gatsby around like a lost dog. He is obviously obliviously impressionable and lost within himself. For Nicholas to improve himself and his lifestyle he should do all of the following things: make boundaries, build his self-confidence and esteem, find out who his real friends are, and not let other people take advantage of him.

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Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, although the title of the story bears the name of Gatsby, we hear the story from Nick Carraway, making him the most important character in the story, through his growth, his beliefs and opinions, and his relationships. F. Scott Fitzgerald puts Nick Carraway in the center of the story, rather than Gatsby, through Nick’s narration of the story. Nick grows to understand the people around him more, and grows in his narration. Because he is constantly around people, he comes to understand them more and he comes to ‘mature’ over the course of the story. When we first are introduced to Nick, we see some advice that he got from his father a long time ago.

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Acknowledging Mr. Carraway “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented for which i have an unaffected scorn” (Fitzgerald 2). Initially, When Nick Carraway moves to New York he describes himself as very different from others and shares no feelings or affections towards anyone but Gatsby. With regards to this, Nick, being socially awkward, finds himself only relating to Gatsby because for the first time he has someone reaching out to him. Evidently, Nick Carraway's loneliness can lead the readers to reevaluate the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Another instance where Nick is seen going beyond the duties of an average neighbor is “ I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby’s grave … I’d been calling up a few people myself” (Fitzgerald 177). In this moment Nick is calling people and asking them to come to Gatsby’s funeral. He is such a loyal person to Gatsby because he is going out of his way to make sure Gatsby has a respectable funeral. Had he put the funeral notice in the paper in would have become a spectacle for the whole town to watch.

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Nick is not going to be a good person for helping Gatsby have an affair with Tom’s wife Daisy. Tom doesn’t know that Nick is helping Gatsby so what he is doing is going unnoticed, but in general, the kind of favors Nick is doing for Gatsby does not make him a good person. Nick might think as a person he is just an innocent bystander but he is the whole reason everything happened the way it did, like the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy, the death of Gatsby, etc. Tom might not know Nick is all behind this meeting but to Tom, Nick is a reliable person an example of this is when Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, Nick is tagging along because Tom just assumes Nick is reliable proven in the quote on page 28, “There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” At this point Tom knows Nick won’t tell otherwise this wouldn’t have

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“I am one of the few honest people I have ever met." (Fitzgerald 59) This is what the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway says about himself. Within the first few pages of the book, the author tries to relate to the reader that Nick has strong morals, and is an honest young man. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby the only honest and respectable character is Nick Carraway.

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What if all the characters in a book are bad? How would that make you feel? That is just the case with the novel entitled “The Great Gatsby”. Everyone has their own major flaws and it's hard to pick who is the most admirable. But the answer to who is the most admirable within the novel will have to be Nick Carraway.

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At the beginning the plot was more of who was Gatsby and Tom Buchanan having an affair on Daisy. Nick then got invited to Gatsby's for one his amazing parties. Gatsby tells Jordan Baker to ask a favor of him that gets him involved in the plot. This favor is “ If you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over”(Fitzgerald 76). This quote from the book shows how Nick Carraway got put into the plot of The Great Gatsby by inviting Daisy to his house

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Nick Carraway the narrator and also one of the main characters in The Great Gatsby. Throughout the first two chapters we see that Nick is very different from most of the other characters in The Great Gatsby who are very shallow and do not care much about people other than themselves. Instead Nick is very tolerant of the way everyone acts and their ideals, he is also very open minded, an example of this is that even though he is disgusted by the lifestyle that the other characters live he still gives living that lifestyle a chance. Along with being tolerant and open minded, Nick is also very quiet and because of this he does not like to participate much in a lot of the events in the story, instead he watches what goes on and describes what he sees.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Nick Carraway and how he belonged to a group of people, because of his cousin Daisy, but he really didn’t belong. The 1920s was a roaring time, but for Nick Carraway it was about to become a lesson that he will learn from. He goes over to Daisy’s house for dinner, where he meets Jordan Baker and they begin a romantic relationship. He learns that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, in the Valley of Ashes. Nick goes to New York with Tom and Myrtle, where they go to the apartment Tom has for his affair.

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