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  • Essay / gatsby - 583

    Nick Carraway finds himself the storyteller of The Great Gatsby when he unknowingly finds himself thrust into a situation that was brewing years before his arrival in West Egg. Quickly, Nick reveals that he is not objective because he remembers the details of what happened: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction" (Fitzgerald , 2). Despite the fact that Nick was related to Daisy by blood, he gravitates towards the mysterious Gatsby in the novel. Nick's unique position in the lives of each of the main characters allows him to give the reader incredible insight into the hearts and minds of Daisy and Jay Gatsby. The story's commentator's journey is important to understanding why Nick is the perfect person to tell this story. to the reader. Although he remembers "that not all the people in the world have had the advantages that [Nick] had," the narrator comes from humbler beginnings than the world he enters in West and East Egg. (Fitzgerald, 1). This gives Nick a sense of credibility because he's not part of the East Coast aristocracy, but there's still a sense of credibility....