The Great Gatsby Essay

 In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is the confidant. He listens to Gatsby's life stories leading the reader through the story. The narrator's curiosity about Gatsby is part of the sympathetic listener role in a confidant character. Nick is also a character of other purposes as well; he is the narrator and everyone tells Nick what is going on.

 Nick's character leads us through Gatsby's world by Nick being so interested in Gatsby's life and becoming his good friend. Having Gatsby and Nick be neighbors but also having different personas intrigues Nick into Gatsby's life. Nick's truthful and reliable traits support his character as the confidant , Gatsby's mysterious character opening up about his life to Nick makes the plot more understandable for the reader. Jay Gatsby is a mystery to everyone else but Nick because Gatsby opened up and told Nick all his life adventures.

 Having Nick be present in the plot brings the story together and makes the situation seem more real. Nick knowing all Gatsby's secrets and about the love triangles brought the story to a real dimension of how twisted society can get. Fitzgerald writing Nick as the narrator instead of a different style keeps the novel in perspective of one person's ideas who isn't from that area and is new to East Egg. The reader and Nick are both new to the East Egg lifestyle and how everyone is connected.

 With F. Scott Fitzgerald writing Nick Carraway as the narrator and being the confidant in the novel, The Great Gatsby, the reader understands the tone and theme better. Nick's character accomplishes displaying the type of life everyone wanted to have and the real people behind the fancy clothes. Carraway's character guides the reader through Jay Gatsby's world better than Jay Gatsby would.