question 2- Olivia Palotay

Nick makes a good narrator because he is very unbiased. When he moves to New York and becomes connected with Daisy, he is surrounded by people from a higher social class than him, and that is not the life that he is used to. He does a good job of fitting in because he does not judge the people around him, and that is why the author chose Nick as the narrator. He gives the readers a chance to form their own opinions on the characters before the narrator, Nick, gives away his. Usually when someone reads a book they have the same opinion on the other characters as the narrator, but this book is different. At the beginning of the book Nick got along with all the characters. He had a bad feeling about Tom because of the way he treated women, especially Daisy, and because of his arrogance. He never spoke bad about Tom though. Nick always treated him with respect as well as the rest of the characters. At the end of the back Nick sees Tom at a jewelry stores and Tom offers to shake Nick's hand. Tom says," "What's the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me?" "Yes. You know what I think of you" (Fitzgerald 178). Nick eventually reveals his trues feelings on all the characters. In the quote, Nick rejects Tom's hand shake and tells him that he does not care for him because the accident was his fault. Tom is the one that told Wilson that is was Gatsby who hit Myrtle which later caused Gatsby's death. Nick also tells Jordan Baker how he feels about her. He explains that her life is not the life for him. The rich life was all fun and games for a little while, but once Nick got caught up in all of their crazy drama, he decided that was not they way he wanted to live. Nick's perspective on the story keeps the readers informed on everything that is happening with every character, and how every character feels. Readers would not know the full side to the events that happen if Nick was not the narrator he was.


I like Nick a lot. He is very honest about the characters and the events that happened no matter how terrible or odd they may seem. He was able to give an inside look on Gatsby that no one else in the story could give. He viewed him as the great man he was until the end. Nick shows readers that no matter how great something can seem, it always has its flaws. Everyone thinks that living a rich, high class life is everything that you could wish for, but Nick shows us the bad side of it. He is a very real person, and I respect that.