Jay Gatsby Monologue

Greetings everyone, for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Nick Carraway. This may be surprising to most of you, but I’ve honestly only ever been drunk twice in my life. Quite unusual in the year of 1922 you may say. But something even more surprising is that only once in my life have I truly encountered a man of wonders, and that man was Jay Gatsby. Jay really was the landmark of the American Dream, a gentleman with passion and power that never failed to astonish you time after time. He was someone who regardless of the toll, persistently offered you his hospitality. I remember first moving next door to Jay, hearing about all these extravagant parties he threw, thinking he did it all for fame and publicity. But Jay wasn’t like all