Gatsby has a good statement but nick's statement the most realistic and true. Nick's attitude forwards things are more blunt or dull you could say, while Gatsby is full of life and sees endless possibilities. In chapter 6“ about nick “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” (6.6-7)This lets the reader know how his life has been and where his mind set comes from. Another quote is “His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was”… (6.132) he talks about Gatsby and how his life had reflected how he treats daisy. The way he treats her …show more content…
(9.152-153) nick says talking about Gatsby. He is exposing how Gatsby is different than him in a way, nick thinks different from him about life and how you can only go forward and not backwards. Gatsby Believes that you can always go back and fix or relive things while nick thinks otherwise.” He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car. (8.28)” this was nick talking about how Gatsby acted after daisy left him. Gatsby eventually thinks that he can make things right again as he continues to try new and old things to get her back. He had reached an age where death no longer. “He has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms, his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride. (9.40)” this could be a reason Gatsby believes in the way he does. Nick try to give a visual description on how his dad acted which may be part of the reason Gatsby is the way he is. Of course Gatsby has had a different life of course and nick can definitely tell . Nick has had a different life as well but he thinks logically and has a sense of awareness, unlike Gatsby he thinks he can fix things if you try hard no matter how bad the
Nick’s impression of Gatsby
Throughout the entire novel Nick remains loyal to Gatsby, and that is very obvious. At the very beginning of chapter one it says, “ ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” Nick’s dad had taught him the valuable life skill of ensuring the fact that he would not judge people. Seeing that there is lots of drama going on in this novel and in Gatsby’s life, Nick still remains loyal and is always there for him.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it has many moments that can be argued that Nick can be displeased with the people he surrounds himself with. Nick even states that Gatsby stands for everything he hates and despises about the rich he corresponds with but yet by the end Gatsby is the only one that Nick appreciates on some level. With an almost fleeting passage in The Great Gatsby though it clearly show that Gatsby had a glamor that secreted from him that Nick idolized but was slowly being squandered as he had ‘talked with him perhaps six times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. ’(pg 64) Nick then goes on to say that Gatsby started to lose the glamour that built up after the parties, especially the rumors he was told about how Gatsby came into his money.
A lot of people today get caught up in the past. They allow the memories to consume their minds, preventing them from moving on, living their lives. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and others, are stuck in their pasts - and it is preventing them from making real friends, second chances at love, and living their lives to the fullest - happy, and with purpose. Nick, along with others, had a hard time believing Gatsby about anything concerning his past.
At the beginning of the book we find out that Gatsby is Nick's next door neighbor and Nick wants to learn more about the mysteries of Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his past by saying it was great while he had to bring himself up. Gatsby left for the war and while he was enlisted he and Daisy sent letters of communication. Daisy made it a point to explain “I wish we could just run away. ”even
Although Nick knows that Gatsby is being delusional and expecting high hopes for his past relationship, he finds Gatsby’s memory to be quite emotional and moving. Gatsby's memory is so moving that Nick cannot help but to look back on an apparently similar memory of his own. Nick refrains from explaining the truth to his friend because he is so caught up in his fantasy and there is no way to break him free and revive him to his senses. Also, during Gatsby’s love story, Nick feels some type of correlation with it. Nick tries to retrieve a memory presumably some time from his adolescence, maybe some tale about his first love or the innocence that he had such a long time ago.
He didn't even accept his own parents or any part of his past as his own. Gatsby’s past is full of lies, a life created from imagination that is not even real. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” [Nick] ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?”
The quote shows to Nick and the reader that Gatsby, despite not talking to Daisy for 5 years, how he believes Daisy loves him, and the past will be repeated. It gives the reader an image of a crazy man who will stop at nothing to get a girl who no longer loves him. The way Gatsby gets very defensive and set on repeating history, does not demonstrate affection ask doesn’t seem to care that Daisy opinion and believes 100% that Daisy for sure loves him
Nick thinks of Gatsby of making people feel like they are important. As said in the book "Gatsby`s smile made someone feel as if they were the most important person in the world", meaning that Gatsby would always give you all his attention when he talked. This also gave other people reasons to believe that he was lying. These rumors that
This is because Nick finally realized that he was Gatsby's only true friend and that he had cared a lot about him. In addition, Nick realized that he didn't like living in West Egg since there wasn't anything there for him anymore. This reveals that Gatsby had impacted Nick's life
When you read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby for your class, you go, “Oh Nick is a liar, a coward, and a narcissist!” and you get an A on your paper. However, I present another argument: Nick is actually one of the few honest people in the novel. “What? There is no way!”
Near the beginning of The Great Gatsby Nick assumes these ideas that he has heard about Gatsby, he puts his initial trust into the ideas of others. As the novel goes on though and Nick meets Gatsby he learns much about the true character of Gatsby and his trust in Gatsby evolves. This is exemplified in the New Great Gatsby Movie during the scene where Nick is at Gatsby’s funeral and no one shows up except him. Nick was the only one who was brave enough to actually interact with Gatsby even with all of his preconceived notions of the man. This bravery and trust allowed for these notions to be tested and that gave Nick an even more trusting relationship with Gatsby.
First, as the story progresses Gatsby’s problem with being obsessive becomes more apparent. The reader can see the issue develop through his words and actions. Nick’s saying that “His dream must have seemed so close that he could
In the story "The Great Gatsby" Nick has a favorable opinion of Jay Gatsby. In the first chapter of the book Nick states "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. " The book gives many examples of Nick thinking of Gatsby as the "Great" such as Gatsby 's smile, what Gatsby was willing to do for Daisy, and what Gatsby did for himself.
It is made clear to the reader that Nick gains quite an interest in Gatsby. He actually begins to become obsessed with him. The book states, “Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him… It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”