Skylar Bradley
Mrs. Savage
English III
The Great Gatsby
January 30th, 2015
Throughout the novel of The Great Gatsby, one of the most essential characters, Nick
Carraway has shown hidden characteristics and secretive means of being an inconsiderate, judgemental dastard. Therefore, in my eyes, he is incapable of narrating the story without having a biased input. Although Nick may be many things, he is not a liar. He does not lie, he just simply does not tell the whole truth, he excludes important factors of evidence needed for the opposite side to get a clear view or grasp on the situation at hand. By doing this, Nick creates many problems in the future, I believe eventually resulting in the death of both Myrtle and
Gatsby. If Nick could have found it in him to actually speak up to Daisy about Toms affairs then the whole entire “death situation” could have been entirely avoided. There are many reasons why I believe that Nick Carraway is not the character that F.
Scott Fitzgerald makes him out to be. One of them being that at the beginning of the novel, Nick claims to be nonjudgmental by saying “I am a man who is inclined to reserve all judgements”
(Page 7) However, many times throughout the book he makes accusations and “points fingers” at
other characters because he disapproves of their actions. For example, when Tom, Jordan, and
Nick stumble upon the crime scene of Myrtles dead body, Nick immediately believed it was
Gatsby who had killed her. He didn't even think about the possibility of Daisy driving the car or that the car who hit Myrtle was even Gaysby's , he just automatically assumed. Not only is Nick judgmental, but he is very biased as well. During the novel, many times
Nick places Gatsby above other characters. By this I mean that Nick overlooks the wrongs that
Jay has done in his life and find a sort of excuse of why Gatsby did that "wrong"or crime of sorts. However, when a different character does something that Nick does not approve of, he makes no excuses. In his mind they did a terrible thing and they are terrible people for what they did. For example, towards the ending of the novel Nick tells Gatsby "They're all a rotten crowd, you're worth a whole lot put together!". By doing this, he's disregarding Gatsby being at fault in
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