Nick Carraway Character Analysis

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  1. a character analysis of Nick Carraway
  2. to begin
  3. Nick Carraway
  4. the narrative, the great Gatsby is a character different from all others.
  5. Nick reveals about himself that he attended Yale after fighting in world War
  6. and that he is in the blondes business.
  7. Nick is a modest man who works hard for his money.
  8. Unlike many other characters in this novel who just fell into money
  9. also, unlike others, Nick has a sense of integrity and a moral standard for himself.
  10. Because of this,
  11. he is able to see past what many others do not in the lives of rich people.
  12. Since Nick is daisy Buchanan's second cousin,
  13. he finds himself as the middleman for Gatsby and daisy
  14. in a cast
  15. acts as a wingman for Gatsby and they form a strong friendship in the process.
  16. Nick and Myers Gatsby due to a strong boil and optimism for his life,
  17. which leads them to become close friends throughout the remainder of the novel.
  18. Okay,
  19. next internal conflict
  20. started the novel, Nick has decided to go east and learn the bonds business
  21. in hopes of becoming successful like many others in the east,
  22. Nick is excited about this opportunity as the
  23. rich lifestyle does seem somewhat appealing to him.
  24. However,
  25. it does not take him long to realize the superficiality and toxicity of those people
  26. because Nick has a sense of morality,
  27. he is able to realize the distraction the lavish
  28. lifestyle has on the people of new york.
  29. However, he still wants to be a part of it.
  30. His relationship with Jordan baker symbolizes this internal struggle of Nick's
  31. make often describes the way she looks.
  32. However, he is repulsed by the fact that she is incurably dishonest.
  33. When Nick says that he enjoyed looking at her,
  34. it demonstrates how he feels about the lavish lifestyle as well.
  35. On a surface level, Nick is attracted to that life
  36. despite having obvious flaws that are distracted
  37. just like Jordan baker.
  38. Now, here's some important character traits.
  39. First, he is honest
  40. Readers know that he is honest as on page 69, Nick says,
  41. I am one of the few honest people that I've ever known.
  42. He's also non judgmental.
  43. He hates his dad advice to reserve all judgments towards people
  44. and it is evident in the beginning of the novel.
  45. Nick is honorable because he has morals and chooses wisely who he hangs out with.
  46. Not only this,
  47. but he waits to receive an invitation from Gatsby before attending his party's,
  48. even when no one else did,
  49. you can also be seen as disloyal as the author refers
  50. our interest to readers that he is engaged to someone back home
  51. through his letter to her.
  52. Yet he was having an affair with Jordan baker.
  53. Maker is also able to empathize with Gatsby in his loneliness
  54. despite seeing the Gatsby as well off
  55. Nick is reserved as he does not meddle in other people's business.
  56. Instead he is respectful of their privacy
  57. and only gets involved when needed or asked
  58. last but not least, he's very intelligent. He was educated at Yale,
  59. Yale and states that he was literary on top of this,
  60. he is successful in the bonds business.
  61. What is his relationship with Gatsby?
  62. Nick is easily able to befriend people due
  63. to his non judgmental and non confrontational personality
  64. described in the beginning.
  65. Others are easily able to confide in him as they do not fear his rejection
  66. or reaction and know that you will not spread rumors
  67. or information.
  68. He gets along with everyone right from the start,
  69. as Gatsby confides in him about his personal life,
  70. Tom brings along,
  71. brings him along to meet his mistress and daisy and Jordan also confide in him.
  72. Now, diving deeper into his relationship with Gatsby.
  73. Despite how different making Gatsby are,
  74. they both lean on each other for support, especially Gatsby as he can confide a Nick.
  75. As mentioned earlier,
  76. their friendship goes over time when
  77. Nick learns more about Gatsby and realizes all there is to admire about him.
  78. Gatsby does not have many friends, so he values his relationship with Nick.
  79. They built such a strong connection that even when
  80. Gatsby is involved in the hit and run case
  81. and Nick says he disliked him so much.
  82. He stays by Gatsby's side
  83. during their friendship.
  84. Nick is introduced to new people and delves deeper
  85. into the glamorous lifestyle Gatsby is a part of
  86. this plays a big role in his perception of that lifestyle
  87. in his character development in general.
  88. Gatsby is one of the only people that Nick respects
  89. and looks up to within his social circle,
  90. and tells Gatsby that the rest are rotten crap.
  91. He says that Gatsby is worth the whole damn bunch,
  92. which sums up the way he feels about Gatsby
  93. when he would talk about his relatives and the woman he is supposedly in love with.
  94. Like that
  95. Nick and daisy are distant cousins who do not seem close at all.
  96. In the beginning of the novel,
  97. however,
  98. daisy seems quite fond of Nick as she is always
  99. excited to see him and even flirts with him a little
  100. In Chapter four, Tom even says
  101. Daisy is furious because he hasn't called up
  102. despite daisy being fond of Nick,
  103. he is able to see past her shallow friendliness and
  104. can tell that she has conceded in money loving.
  105. He does not dislike daisy, but does not think very highly of her.
  106. As mentioned before, Daisy's entire social circle was referred to as a rotten crap,
  107. making no attempt to exclude dizzy
  108. how to make changes
  109. at the beginning of the novel, readers think highly of Nick in his moral code
  110. that is seemingly not present anywhere else.
  111. However, taking a closer look, reveals that he might not be
  112. as much of an honorable man as he once was.
  113. He accompanies tom and his mistress to a party
  114. where he gets drunk for only the second time
  115. that afternoon,
  116. he already begins to deviate away from that
  117. respectful and reserved man readers see at the start
  118. as he turns a blind eye to tom cheating on his wife,
  119. not to mention how she is a cousin
  120. meeting. Got to be also instills many changes within the character of Nick
  121. first, he is no longer so honest
  122. because Nick becomes so dedicated to Gatsby,
  123. he does not tell the truth about the death of Myrtle.
  124. Nick begins to drink and party more, which does not have a good effect on him.
  125. And he also skips work to stay with Gatsby one day
  126. gets me asked Nick to set up a rendezvous between him and daisy and nick complies
  127. meaning he condones the affair.
  128. This is not morally right.
  129. However, not everything changes for the wars.
  130. By the end,
  131. Nick's internal conflict is resolved as he realizes through having met Gatsby
  132. that the lavish lifestyle does not live up to his expectations
  133. when Myrtle was killed and Nick sees that nobody
  134. really cares what happened to her or takes responsibility.
  135. He has reassured of the shallowness and carelessness of these people.
  136. Nick meets and socializes with people that only
  137. care about themselves and have no sense of morality
  138. and eventually Nick realizes he does not want anything to do with them.
  139. In conclusion,
  140. Nick is a more in depth character than presented. At first glance
  141. he has presented
  142. in a certain way that being modest, honorable, likable, and respectful,
  143. which he is at times,
  144. however, over time, he loses
  145. some of his sense of self and good judgment.
  146. He let tomorrow thanks slide under his nose
  147. and passes it off as being not judgmental.
  148. He becomes involved in situations that have lasting consequences.
  149. Nick realizes by the end that he is not a good fit for the glamorous lifestyle
  150. presented in new york and that socializing with those people did not do any good.
  151. As a result, Nick moves back home for a fresh start.