Nick's Role In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby is a very peculiar book, and has a lot of questions that surround it, especially about Nick Carraway. Questions like, why Nick is narrating or his role in the book? Why first person narration? And can we trust Nick? Nick in my opinion is a perfect choice for a narrator because he is in the story, but yet still has an outside perspective of what is happening. Also, his observant personality allows him to tell the reader more about a character than usual. Nick’s ability to judge someone and his moral also helped when deciphering Jay Gatsby 's accomplishments or lies that he told about his past. Also, his social class falls between Gatsby and the Buchanan’s, this makes him more sympathetic to both. Nick’s role in my opinion,