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Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next door to Gatsby.
Tom brings Nick to the Valley of Ashes, an industrial dumping site between West Egg and the city, and picks up his mistress Myrtle Wilson at a garage owned by her husband George. One day, Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. There, Nick encounters Jordan and they both meet Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby: Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Lisa Adam, Frank Aldridge, Amitabh Bachchan, Steve Bisley. A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.
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- Drama, Romance
- Baz Luhrmann
- 2013-05-10
Nick Carraway. The bookish protagonist of the movie, Nick Carraway is a WWI veteran, a Yale graduate, and an aspiring bonds salesman on Wall Street. When we first meet him, he is at a sanatarium, diagnosed with alcoholism, anxiety, fits of anger and insomnia.
- Baz Luhrmann
Nick Carraway : The fact that Gatsby's house is just across the bay. Jordan Baker : It's no coincidence. He bought that house to be near her.
Nick begins to walk around the room, speaking about Gatsby, noting particularly his “sensitivity.” The psychiatrist looks puzzled as he sits beside a large fire, and asks Nick where he met Gatsby. Nick sighs and goes to the window, and tells him, “at a party in New York…in the summer of 1922.”
