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    principles; moral uprightness” (Google Definitions). The first person that comes to mind when I hear the word integrity is Nick Carraway from the movie and the novel “the Great Gatsby”. Nick Carraway is Gatsby’s Lovers brother and Gatsby’s best friend‚ he is also the narrator. Nick shows honesty‚ moral principles‚ and moral uprightness throughout the entire book. Nick Carraway as a narrator is honest and reliable because he explains all the judgments from characters in general and is unbiased in doing

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    These elements‚ as described earlier‚ include a place for the quester to go and a stated reason for going to that place. In the beginning chapter of The Great Gatsby‚ Nick explains the background context for which he writes about a past personal experience‚ his quest. Carraway states in his explanation‚ "I decided to go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business‚ so I supposed it could support one more single man" (Fitzgerald 3). The place

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    catastrophe. This is demonstrated through the characters Tom Buchannan and Jay Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is a man who is born into a privileged family and lives a life where money certainly is not an issue. Tom and Nick Carraway‚ the narrator of the story‚ travel to visit Tom’s mistress. Nick recalls the event of going to the “valley of ashes”‚ “It was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress. The fact that he had one insisted upon wherever he was known. His acquaintances resented the

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    The in-depth critical analysis of the Great Gatsby by Frances Kerr gives an interesting insight into the narrative structure of F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby‚ the psychology of its narratorNick Carraway‚ and the reflection of F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s femininity in his critically-acclaimed novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Frances Kerr ’s critical analysis also gives additional insight into the slight paranoia of Jay Gatsby about being viewed as feminine. According to Frances Kerr ’s critical analysis

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    chose specific first words for Tom and Daisy who are married‚ and live across the bay from our narrator Nick Carraway‚ to give us an insight of who they are throughout the book. F. Scott Fitzgerald composed first words for Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s very wealthy husband to give us a perception of his personality throughout the book. Nick Carraway our narrator gets invited to the Buchanans for dinner‚ Nick meets Tom outside of his home and Tom says “‘I’ve got a nice place here’”(7). Tom says this and

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald’s main innovation was to introduce a first person narrator and protagonist whose consciousness filters the story’s events. This device was not a total invention since a character through whose eyes and mind the central protagonist is discovered is to be found in two of Conrad’s books : Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. As usual with this device‚ the main protagonist remains strange and shady. This technique reinforces the mystery of the characters. The second advantage

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    she saw‚ heard‚ concluded‚ and thought and is usually characterized by the use of the pronoun “I”. The speaker or narrator may sometimes seem to be the author speaking directly using an authorial voice. For example‚ Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby” tells the story in a first-person point of view‚ sharing with the reader only his thoughts and what he sees is happening. Nick Carraway says‚ “He talked a lot about the past‚ and I gathered that he wanted to recover something‚ some idea of himself perhaps

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    assume. The character of Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby can be characterized as sexually ambiguous and emotionally insecure. On the one hand‚ Nick Carraway is a person who came from an upper middle class family and is attracted to Jordan Baker‚ and on the other hand‚ he demonstrates a sexual attraction toward Jay Gatsby that is hidden due to his strict upbringing as a child. Added to this‚ he portrays himself as a bit feminine‚ all

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    The ‘Great Gatsby’ was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his novel‚ he adopted a unique style of first-person narration. The narrator of the story was Nick Carraway‚ a young man from Minnesota in the Midwest. He was born into a well-situated family and graduated from Yale. Soon after‚ he entered the military service to fight for his own country in World War I. After this‚ in 1922‚ he moved to the glamorous melting pot of New York to learn more on bond businesses after the war had drastically changed

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    unreliable narrator‚ iconic symbols‚ and theme of wealth in the time of prosperity. Modernism is the rejection of social‚ political‚ or religious views‚ often with the basis of science explains everything. The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway‚ Daisy’s cousin who had close experiences with Gatsby. Everything in the story is what Nick Carraway saw‚ his opinions of what happened‚ and the thoughts he had during those times. Looking at the way Nick narrated the story‚ it can be assumed that Nick Carraway

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