Who Is Nick Carraway Responsible For Gatsby's Downfall

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is omnipotent as he knows almost everything about everyone. The person he knows about best is Gatsby. Nick is known to be Gatsby’s alter-ego as they are too inseparable to one another. However, in the favorable moments which Nick and Gatsby had shared, there is more to Gatsby in which Nick learns through the obscurity of lies and rumors going around about Gatsby. Although some readers of The Great Gatsby have argued that Nick Carraway was fond of Gatsby, closer examination showed that he is regretful as he tries to protect Gatsby’s victimization from a corrupt and uncaring world.
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Nick moving to New York for the summer with the ambition of becoming a stockbroker

Gatsby took note of Nick moving in and had wanted to meet him and introduce himself, “I had been actually invited... a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party."(Fitzgerald 22). Nick Gladly accepted the invite to the party and would attend later that night with the thought of what reason would Gatsby want him there for? Some people might say that Gatsby just wants to get to know Nick as he had just arrived in the neighborhood, however he wants something from Nick that will reveal itself later throughout the novel. Nick arrived at the party with his invitation, out of curiosity he looked around for Gatsby, yet he couldn’t find him. Asking around people had told him “no one knows who Gatsby is”, and on top of that multiple rumors about who and what Gatsby does.

Nick came to the realization of how shallow and greedy the wealthy really are, and he struggles with knowing that after everything Gatsby did for people no one showed up to his funeral. Nick received no reward, although instead nothingness, “But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined...She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby nothing”(Fitzgerald 82). Gatsby never did obtain Daisy as she had no care he was gone. Daisy had forgotten about everything Gatsby did for her and the love and compassion he expressed for her, “I found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone...I called up Daisy but she and Tom had gone away”(Fitzgerald 90). Tom and Daisy had left New York as Nick recovers from the death of Gatsby alone. Daisy’s reflection on Nick brought out a whole new way of looking at her, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness”(Fitzgerald 98). Nick had finally realized how shallow and greedy Tom and Daisy were and the selfishness of the wealthy. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .