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     beginning  of  the  novel summarizes entirely the whole book  in just a  sentence. The Great Gatsby  is  a  novel  about  a hopeless  romantic‚ Jay  Gatsby‚ who attempts  to  attains  the  woman  back  that  he  “loves”‚  while  his  dear  friend  Nick  Carraway  tags  along  with him  during  this journey.  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular novel takes place in the 1920’s‚ an  era  most commonly  known as  the Roaring  Twenties.  This  was a time with great cultural and  technological  improvements.  Everyone 

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    Scott Fitzgerald uses the honest and moral narratorNick Carraway to portray the many immoral people and their corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are materialistic‚ as they try to satisfy their materialism by doing immoral things. Nick‚ who is slow to judge‚ shows the reader the significant contrast between his ‘American Dream’ and how the other characters have corrupted ‘American Dream’. Nick is one of the many characters in this novel

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    concepts pertaining to the justification of these immoral acts and the way that it is seen from the perspective of the character committing the moral crime. His protagonist and narratorNick Carraway‚ gives great examples from the start of the book to the finish. Immediately from the beginning of the book it seems as though Fitzgerald is attempting to grasp the readers attention on a subconscious‚ moral level by starting the novel with his narrator explaining that he was “inclined to reserve all

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    honest people that I have ever known" (Page 59). So writes Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ characterizing himself in opposition to the great masses of humanity as a perfectly honest man. The honesty that Nick attributes to himself must be a nearly perfect one‚ by impression of both its infrequency and its "cardinal" nature; Nick stresses that he is among the most honest people he has ever encountered. As Carraway familiarizes himself with the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan

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    One Sided Narration Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel called the “The Great Gatsby”. He is a young man that came from Minnesota and was educated at Yale and fought in World War I. He moves to New York to work and learn the bond business. His father taught him to be an honest‚ and trustworthy person growing him up. He was also told by his father to reserve judgment of people. After moving to West Egg‚ Nick finds himself meeting people and finding himself a best friend and next-door

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    everything is much more dramatized that there appears to be no relationship between the two. The story takes place in the roaring 20’s and is based on the events that happen with Nick Carraway‚ the narrator‚ Jay Gatsby‚ who is trying to wed the already married Daisy Buchanan‚ and Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s wife. Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway‚ Tom Buchanan‚ and Daisy Buchanan each make illusions‚ they also believe those illusions are the truth in their lives. Jay Gatsby has the largest illusion which is that

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald strategically begins the novel by giving us insight into the narratorNick Carraway. After reading the first two chapters the reader has a good understanding of Nick Carraway and what his values are. The reader feels a connection to Nick‚ whose character is a stark contrast compared to the other characters introduced in the story. The characters in this story‚ specifically from East Egg‚ can be compared and contrasted to those from Camelot in our previous

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    inside the novel‚ for example‚ the car wreck after Gatsby’s party in chapter 3 and again in chapter 7 when Nick states‚ ”So we drove on towards death through the cooling twilight” (Fitzgerald 136)‚ effectively foreshadowing Myrtle’s‚ and eventually Gatsby’s‚ death. There is a parallel in relationships shown throughout the novel. Gatsby and Daisy are presented as an idealistic past dream‚ while Nick and Jordan represent a more realistic romantic relationship filled with more problems most encounter. Tom

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    helps readers understand history and changes over time. Many immoral behaviors caused people to become involved in bootlegging‚ gambling‚ and prostitution in the 1920s. These actions revolve around money and the need for money during this time period. Bootlegging and prostitution were not only immoral‚ but they are also crimes. Gambling‚ on the other hand‚ was used throughout casinos as a hobby‚ but this American tradition became

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    essay I will analyze how Nick Carraway is too deeply involved in events and relationships to be a reliable narrator. I intend to show how far and in what ways I agree with this view of “The Great Gatsby” . The story’s based on the main character Nick Carraway’s perspective. In the first chapter F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the reader that Nick goes to West Egg to visit his beloved cousin Daisy Buchannan‚ her husband Tom and their little baby Pammy. Through Nick Carraway‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald lets

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