Confidante In The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby are polar opposites. Nick is poor while Gatsby is rich, Nick is laid-back while Jay is social and throws extravagant parties every weekend, and Nick is honest and doesn’t hide who he is while nobody truly knows who Gatsby really is or how he got his riches or even what he really does. So, how are the two such close friends? Through the differences, Fitzgerald immaculately used multiple elements and devices to style his writing and portray Nick and Jay’s characters and their relationship.

Everyone that lived in west egg and in east egg new of a gentleman called Gatsby but no one really knew who he was. Now Gatsby had a neighbor nick who loves to observe things and as nick says “It was Gatsby's mansion or rather as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman." ( Fitzgerald p.5) Not even Gatsby's neighbor knew anything about the guy who throws gaint parties

Each character from The Great Gatsby is guided by his or her own personal ethics. Not one character from the novel seems to follow Gods path. Although, they may use God’s name in vain, no one ever takes it seriously. In chapter 6, as Nick finally discovers Gatsby’s real history, he expands on Gatsby’s relationship with God, by quoting:

Gold and money, a light in the dark, or a warning on the road; the color yellow has many diverse meanings in society and these are just a few. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald colors represent several aspects of the characters as they are swept through rollicking emotions powered by the mystery shrouding the enigmatic Jay Gatsby in the height of the Roaring Twenties. Yellow gives insight into Gatsby’s character, who he wants to be, who he is in truth, and who others think he is.

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates a morally ambiguous character that can’t be defined as strictly good or evil. Moral ambiguity is the driving force towards Gatsby’s actions. The character Gatsby demonstrates morally ambiguous qualities that initiate plot throughout the whole novel.

Jay Gatsby, the title character of the novel “The Great Gatsby” is a man that can not seem to live without the love of his life. Trying to win Daisy over consumes Gatsby’s life as he tries to become the person he thinks she would approve of. What most readers do not realize is that Jay Gatsby’s character mirrors many personality traits and concerns that the author of novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, had. In fact, Gatsby and Fitzgerald are similar in that they both had a girl they wanted to win over, took a strong stance on alcohol, and ironically both had similar funerals, also, both people also symbolize the American dream.

Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are two of the most important characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Throughout the novel many comparisons and contrasts can be made, however, this may be arguably the most important due to the magnitude of importance of these two characters and the roles they play in progressing the story. Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic Mansion in West Egg and the protagonist, throws constant parties every Saturday night, but nobody has much insight about him. Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota who lives in New York City to learn the bond business, is typically an honest and tolerant man. Although they do share some similarities, they also share a plethora of differences in their

“As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table – the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.” (Fitzgerald, 42)

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby had one goal; Gatsby had spent his life trying to get rich and avoid poverty, which he successfully did. However, his goal was to capture the heart of one Daisy Buchanan. At one point, Daisy had been Gatsby's girlfriend. He wanted to marry her, but was sent off to war, World War I. Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, had come to know Gatsby very well. Nick was Daisy's cousin and lived right next door to Gatsby. Throughout the novel, Nick helps Gatsby get closer to Daisy, but by the end of the book, it doesn't end well. The final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," was iconic and appropriate for several reasons.

What is your background like? Did you grow up wealthy? Poor? In-between? Did you live in the suburbs or an apartment? Have you ever lied? Everyone in their lifetime has told at least one lie small or large. Human beings are inherently dishonest despite different backgrounds. Fitzgerald, is able to convey this theme of deceit and treachery through the characters of his book, The Great Gatsby.

In stories, there are often characters that add something so discreetly that they often go unnoticed. These are known as confidants. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the confidant was Nick. But how much does he really influence the story? Nick oftentimes evaluates the happenings of the story, helping the readers understand to a greater detail of what happened. He also acts as someone to keep Gatsby in check, yet also support his ambitions.

Nick sees Tom for the first time after Gatsby’s death, Tom justifies telling wilson it was Gatsby that killed Myrtle. “ He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” Tom said but Nick knew different. “ There was nothing I could say, except one utterable fact that it wasn’t true” (Fitzgerald 178) Nick said to himself. He knew the one secret Gatsby had taken to his grave, that Daisy had been the one driving the night Myrtle was hit. Daisy killed Myrtle, and she hadn’t told her husband. She could have prevented Gatsby from getting killed if she had just come out and told her husband everything that had happened. But she wanted to save her marriage and just get away from all that had

Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main focus of the plot appears to be on the erratic relationships that Nick, the narrator, observes over his time spent in West Egg. The main relationship however is the romance between Nick’s wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby, and Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, who is married to a rich man named Tom Buchanan. Over the course of the book, Gatsby’s “love” for Daisy leads both of them to pursue an affair that ends in the death of Gatsby, by a man who mistook him for his wife’s killer. The book, at first glance, attempts to make the romance of Gatsby and Daisy seem like a wonderful heart-wrenching reunion of two lovers after years of being apart from one another. However, there are many signs that

Jay Gatsby throws the most extravagant parties all of West Egg has ever seen confirmed by the mass amounts of people, the entertainment, the food, and the drinks. Gatsby throws these parties in attempt to impress his former lover Daisy Buchanan, whether one day she’ll set foot into one of the infamous parties, see the bright lights from across the bay, or hear about the massive parties thrown by a mystery man named Gatsby. Even though his parties were tremendous many in attendance weren’t even sure who Gatsby truly was, there were rumors spread like the game of telephone “Somebody told me, they thought he killed a man once.” “I don’t think it’s so much that , it’s more that he was a German Spy during the war.” (48) Most guests drop in to

Gatsby’s expansive wealth places him on a high level in the eyes of his acquaintances. Gatsby throws lavish parties at his excessive mansion, drives expensive cars, and even has servants to assist him in daily life. All of these expenditures gives Nick Carraway the image that Gatsby well off in the world. For example, Gatsby throws numerous parties throughout the summer. Many of the attendees of the party just show up and are never formally invited by Gatsby himself. The whole mansion, servants and all, prepare all week for these parties. According to the narrator, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemon arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” On the other hand, Gatsby’s wealth is ill-gotten. Nick hears multiple rumors that Gatsby ran illegal operations with Meyer Wolfshiem and Dan Cody and may have even killed a man. None of which Nick believes at first. The most expositor figure of Gatsby’s true wealth is Tom Buchanan. In the New York hotel room, Tom brings to light Gatsby’s true cause of prosperity. “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter,” Tom states boldly finally proving that Gatsby did not inherit it but assumed it through fraudulent