Why Is Nick's Home Important In The Great Gatsby

Many places in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald have great significance, for many reasons and without these places the plot would be entirely different and the whole feeling of the the story would be changed. The book is an American masterpiece and many say Fitzgerald’s best piece. His house was a piece of many significant events many, but all wouldn’t be possible if Nick’s house wasn't strategically placed right next door to Gatsby’s home, his house being there gives us this story, without it there is no story. Nicks’s house located in “new money” West Egg, it is a little shack right next to Gatsby’s castle of a home (Fitzgerald 11). Nick, being the narrator, has to remain close to Gatsby and the rest of the main characters or there is no story to be told because there is no one to tell it. When Nick is present we see what he sees and hear what he hears but when he isn’t present we hear what happens from other characters when Nick

This kiss was important in starting Daisy and Gatsby’s love affair, and without Nick or his conveniently placed house there might have not ever been a love affair between the two. One of the last things that gives this house significance would be that this house is where Nick started out, where he did his reading and thinking, he never would've gotten the invite from Gatsby to attend one of his lavish parties, one of the few maybe the only to ever actually receive an invitation to one of his parties, which then caused the meeting between Gatsby and Nick and Gatsby’s request, through Jordan, ”he wants to know, if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over” (Fitzgerald 78). Where if that meeting never happens almost nothing in this story would’ve happened the way it did if Nick’s house didn’t