Who Is Nick Carraway's Speech In The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway directly characterizes Jay Gatsby as a sincere man through his smile, although his speech reveals that he might not be the man that everyone thinks he is. Nick conveys this sincere quality of Gatsby when he says his smile “was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it” (48). The rare smile that Gatsby presents to Nick demonstrates that Gatsby is “reassuring” while someone is talking to him because he makes it feel as if he is really listening and trying to understand what one, or Nick in this case, is trying to say, which creates a sense of trust as well. Nick also says that his smile made you “believe in yourself” and “assured you that it has precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped