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Nick Carraway inside of Nick Carraway Personality traits allow a writer to create vivid images of his characters. These traits are shown through actions because they are exhibited through behaviors. According to Physcology.about.com‚ “the trait theory suggest that individual personalities are composed of broad dispositions such as central and secondary traits” (Par. 5).Each character in a literacy work has a unique trait; however‚ multiple traits may occur more than just a single trait. Nick’s traits
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The Great Gatsby‚ the only person who Gatsby believes to be close friends with is Nick Carraway. There are many instances in this book where Nick and Gatsby both show qualities of being bad friends toward one another. However‚ neither of them realize it until it is too late. Nick and Gatsby are often dishonest with each other and do not fully trust each other which shows how fragile their friendship really is. Nick truly believes that he is a good friend to Gatsby. However‚ the lack of help and the
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Gatsby chapter summary Chapter 1 In chapter one of the Great Gatsby we are introduced to the narrator Nick Carraway‚ a young man who has moved from the Midwest Of America to West Egg in New York to become a bonds salesman. We discover that the events that Nick is going to tell us about happened a year ago and he is retelling the story of his time in West Egg and his experiences with Gatsby. Nick moved to New York and rents a small house next to a mansion which is owned by Gatsby. On the other side
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Great Gatsby‚ Nick doesn’t care too much for Gatsby‚ but later Nick begins to like Gatsby‚ and by the end‚ Nick and Gatsby become best friends. It is sort of weird how their relationship develops‚ and the reason it develops. Nick and Gatsby seem to be two totally different people‚ but I guess opposites attract. In the beginning of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Nick doesn’t care too much for Gatsby. Nick thinks that Gatsby is kind of odd‚ and mysterious. For example‚ on page 20‚ Nick says “he gave
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himself as Nick Carraway and talks about himself and his father. He describes himself as tolerant but fails to realizes his views are very biased and speaks with pity to those who “haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had‚” as his father says. Nick comes from a well-known Mid-Western family‚ and graduated from Yale (as his ancestors have) in 1915. After fighting in World War I‚ he comes home restless and decides to learn the bond business. His father finances Nick for a year and Nick lives in
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virtues‚ and this is mine: I am one of the few 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
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Questions 1. Hemingway writes about the idea of the end of something as the beginning of something else. Marjorie and Nick go fishing‚ and Nick breaks up with Marjorie‚ implying that there are other fish in the sea. Marjorie rows off in the distance as a new character‚ Bill‚ comes forth and also begins to watch the fishing rods; possibly‚ he will take his chance with Nick. 2. Nick and Marjorie observe the ruin of the old mill that used to support the entire town‚ which has become a ghost town. Thus
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Chapter 1. Nick introduces himself and shows that he is tolerant of others and non judgemental. Nick does not like the lifestyle of New York and decides to move to the Midwest. Nick rents a small house in the West Egg. Nick goes to his cousin Daisy’s house for dinner. We are introduced to Daisy’s husband‚ and we learn that he is powerful and is also cheating on Daisy. Daisy seems to be afraid to confront Tom about this problem because she is drawn in by Tom’s wealth and does not want to lose it
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have good manners and a well honourable character. Nick just graduated from yale university and he moved to new york. Nick stayed in west egg a long island in new york‚ he describes his house as less fashionable and he compares his house with Mr Gatsby his neighbour‚ he described his house as a Gatsby mansion‚ nick says his house his an eyesore compared to Gatsby’s mansion. He used metaphor to describe his house “ My own house was an eyesore”. Nick usually described houses in East egg for the rich
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