Who Is Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway- He is the narrator and main character of the novel The Great Gatsby. After Nick graduated from Yale and served in World War I, he moved to New York City to learn how to sell bonds. He then moved to West egg, which is a fictional area in Long Island to sell bonds. He soon becomes friends with his neighbor, Gatsby.
Jay Gatsby- He is the character that the novel is titled after. He is a wealthy young man who lives in a mansion in West Egg. He is well known for the parties he throws every Saturday night, and no one knows how he became wealthy, where he comes from, or what he does for a living. Nick finds out that Gatsby came from a farm in North Dakota, and he made his fortune through criminal activity, and he would do anything