The Unreliable Narrator In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he uses the unreliable narrator device that depicts Nick contradicting himself. Fitzgerald writes this way to portray significance of a specific passage and wants to show the readers that everything Nick says might not be true. Nick fits as a unreliable narrator when he says something good about himself but in actuality he exaggerates on what he says. Nick shows insight to his personality by showing the mistakes he make. This is significant because it can depict Nick as a misleading narrator to the reader and also show that the novel is shown in Nick’s perspective. This means that he can leave out certain details that can be essential in the book. In the beginning of the novel Nick tells

The meaning of this passage is that Nick is trying to tell us that each one of us holds onto a specific virtues to help us become a better person. It is funny that honesty is not a cardinal virtue but Nick probably means that it is a big virtue he is good at. Nick is saying that he is a honest person, which can be true but when he says that he is the few honest people he knows, he is saying this on his own opinion. Nick is exaggerating and wants to sound like a genuine person. Everyone can be honest but when he says “few” it is like an exclamation point to the readers because he is not just the only person who is honest. An example of someone else who is honest is Daisy because when Gatsby tells her to tell Tom she never loved him, Daisy said she loved him once which shows Nick is not the only one who is honest. Some readers can debate this statement by saying the reason why Nick says that is because many of the other characters are dishonest, like Tom and Jordan. Tom wants to show other people that he is smart but really he is not. In Jordan’s case, Nick told the readers she cheated in the golf tournament which is true. Fitzgerald makes this passage stand out by showing Nick being full of himself. He