Question

Describe Nick Carrawy in the book The Great Gatsby

Answer 1

"Nick Carroway is a man in his early thirties who is from the Mid-West and decides to move to Long Island, New York for the summer of 1922 to sort of test the area out and see if this is a place that he would like to live. He is a stockbroker and was educated at Yale University. He obviously comes from a wealthy family, although not as wealthy as some of the other characters in the novel, because of the advice that he is given by his father. Nick is told by his father that he can not really judge people based upon his own life because he has had many privileges that others have not had.

Nick functions as the narrator and is the link between the characters and the reader because he supplies all of the information that is necessary in order to understand the characters and the events that take place. Nick is also the character that allows the reader to form his/her judgments on other characters because Nick relays the information back to the reader – whether truthful or not."