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As he tells the reader in Chapter 1, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant.
- Daisy Buchanan
She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. As a...
- Jordan Baker
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- Myrtle Wilson
Although The Great Gatsby is full of tragic characters who...
- Character List
A list of all the characters in The Great Gatsby. The Great...
- Chapter 2
Catherine has bright red hair, wears a great deal of makeup,...
- Tom Buchanan
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- Jay Gatsby
The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man,...
- The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is set against the backdrop of 1920s New...
- Daisy Buchanan
Who is Nick Carraway? We explain what role the narrator of The Great Gatsby plays in the novel's plot, analyze significant quotes, and offer ideas for essays.
Near the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick (the narrator) is heading back to Long Island in a car driven by Tom Buchanan. Jordan Baker is the other passenger.
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The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a young man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the books author. He begins by commenting on himself, stating that he learned from his father to reserve judgment about other people, because if he holds them up to his own moral standards, he will misunderstand th...
In the summer of 1922, Nick writes, he had just arrived in New York, where he moved to work in the bond business, and rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. Unlike the conservative, aristocratic East Egg, West Egg is home to the new rich, those who, having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the r...
Nick is unlike his West Egg neighbors; whereas they lack social connections and aristocratic pedigrees, Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. One night, he drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, a former member of Nicks social club at Yale. Tom, a powerful figure dressed i...
The Great Gatsby is written in first-person limited perspective from Nick’s point of view. This means that Nick uses the word “I” and describes events as he experienced them. He does not know what other characters are thinking unless they tell him.
Nick draws between Gatsby and Jesus, the son of God. Nick may have fallen in love with Gatsby’s capacity for romanticism but a feminist reading of the novel may correct this.
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6 days ago · Introduction: Getting to Know Nick Carraway. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby, we've got this guy Nick Carraway who's the one telling us the story. He's like the glue that holds all the characters together, kinda like a bridge. So, how does Fitzgerald paint a picture of Nick?
