The Role Of Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby

From the American novel, "The Great Gatsby", a character known as Nick Carraway who plays a role throughout the story. Nick Carraway arrived in New York to work with bonds, like his father, and tries to become successful as the rest of the bonds salesman. However, all of his planning seems to slowly go away after meeting Jay Gatsby and seeing how Gatsby comes into his life which changed his goal. While Nick begins to form a friendship with Gatsby, he undergoes a development that will affect his decisions and goals when he stays in West Egg, New York, next door to the "Great Gatsby".
In the beginning of the novel, young Nick Carraway is from wealthy family in Minnesota, while he was taught to not judge based on looks and get to know a person,
“After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby’s front door.” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9, page 171). Nick knew that many people Gatsby met were not true friends because no one had a personal connection with Jay Gatsby besides Nick, since Nick hardly judge someone based on a cover, “At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interest-interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end.” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9, page 172). Although Nick did travel to find important people that may have been connected and important to Gatsby, Nick began to find more history behind Gatsby’s cover. The truth of Gatsby show the meaning behind the green light that Gatsby had expressed to Nick long before he was killed, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9, page 189). So, when Nick left for the two year period, which is when he transmuted in himself has finally come to an end which shows the final product of the development. Nick knew himself that he wasn’t the same individual as he was before meeting Gatsby, he expanded his knowledge from learning through experience and not just literal books. Throughout the novel, Nick learned about a different perspective on decisions and saw how he was changed by