Similarities Between Nick Carraway And Billy Flynn In The Great Gatsby

Both Nick Carraway and Billy Flynn are the only characters in Chicago or the Great Gatsby that know all of the happenings in their respective stories, though Nick doesn’t run everything like Flynn does, and is instead a mere observer who ends up being the catalyst for the events taking place in the book. Billy Flynn is portrayed multiple times as an entertainer and show man who manipulates the opinions and emotions of his audience. When talking to the press after he agrees to work Roxie’s case he has a song wherein he is a puppeteer and controls what Roxie voices about her crime and he persuades everyone i that Roxie was trying to defend herself when she and Fred “both reached for the gun”, twisting the truth into a grand narrative of an innocent