How Does Nick Carraway Change In The Great Gatsby

The Great Carraway Weather is always changing, especially in Kansas. It will be sunny one minute and snowing the next. The purpose of this statement is that weather is unpredictable, just like a book. A reader can never guess the outcome of a book in the end. For example, settings change, plots change, and most importantly characters change. A dynamic character is one who endures internal change, and in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters change by the end of the book. By analyzing one of the characters in particular, Nick Carraway, from the beginning, middle, and the end, one can realize the dynamic change within himself. At the beginning of the book Carraway, the narrator, is a respected wholesome man living in the Midwest. He is honest, well-educated, and innocent. Carraway desires to be a bond broker in the East and make his own money. While he is there, his main goal is to attain the American dream through hard work and sweat. However, having lived in the Midwest most of his life, Carraway is naïve to the lives of the “new money” in the East. From this, the audience knows what his ambitions are in the East and he or she can
Carraway is constantly being forced into the lives of the “new money” such as Daisy, his cousin, Tom, his old friend, and Gatsby. Women, cars, money, possessions, and the extravagant parties make Carraway realize how much he longs for his old Mid-Western life. He becomes conscious of the fact that people in the East are very shallow and materialistic. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and later his funeral, Carraway also recognizes that the East Coast lacks a set of moral values. For example, most characters in the novel believe the American dream is everlasting money, but for Carraway, it has become a theory of much complication. This is significant because the reader can now see that his views are starting to