Nick Carraway's Point Of View

The book, The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, has various characters who have not met their full potential with satisfaction in their lives. In particular, Nick Carraway, both a character and a narrator in the book is very disillusioned o many level throughout the book. Carraway is met with discouragement and disappointed with the idea of wealth, and the relationship he encounters with his move to New York. After returning from the war, Carraway already shows us he is unsatisfied with his life. He decides to leave his hometown of Minnesota and move to New York to pursue a career in bonds: “Instead of being the warm center of the world, the middle west now seemed like ragged edge of the universe-so I decided to go East and then learn the bond business” (Fitzgerald, 03) Once in New York, Carraway becomes
In this part Nick hasn’t slept because he is so confused and upset at the fact that Tom and Daisy could potentially be playing Jay Gatsby. In chapter 7 Nick sees Tom and Daisy having an awkward dinner where there was total silence. As Nick was trying to sneak off to go home, he looks back to see if Gatsby is safe. As he looks in the window he sees Tom and Daisy nodding at each other in a way where there could have been a decision made or a plan thought out. That’s where Nick realized what was really going on which made him feel unsatisfied and disillusioned towards Tom and Daisy and towards himself, because he now knows information that could hurt Gatsby. This shows the relationship towards Nick and Gatsby and how is causes the dissatisfaction towards the two. Later when Gatsby is killed Carraway is most dillusioned when Daisy does not even show for the funeral. Both Tom and Daisy had packed up and gone away without a forwarding address. It is at the end of the novel that Carraway sums up his disillusions of his life in New