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The Great Gatsby Judgmental Analysis

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Judgmental is a word that today’s society calls a dreadful thing. Judgmental means having or displaying an excessively critical point of view. In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick has mixed emotions throughout the book about being considered “judgmental”. Nick moved to New York to try his luck in the bonds business, he lives in the West Egg next to this extremely wealthy man who goes by the name Gatsby. Daisy, who lives in the West Egg across the bay, is Nick’s cousin and is married to Tom, who Nick knows from college. Gatsby and Daisy have a history and it further becomes a mess for many people. Tom and Daisy are a part of the “wealthy elite” and its people like them who confuse Nick about being judgmental. …show more content…

Gatsby is in love with Daisy and wants to see her, with the help of Nick. Since Nick is too nice to say no, he becomes wrapped up with their lives. One day Nick explained, “he was calling up at Daisy’s request-would I come to lunch at her house tomorrow… And yet I couldn’t believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene…” (120). Nick was asked to be at the lunch, at which, Gatsby and Daisy were going to announce their affair. Because him allowing their immorality, they clung to him. Him not judging, okayed their behavior, so people felt comfortable around him. After the lunch, after the accident, and after Gatsby’s death Nick thought, “there was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that is wasn’t true” (187). Gatsby didn't want anyone to know that Daisy was the one who was driving the car that night because he was trying to protect her. So now that Gatsby is dead, Nick feels obligated to hold that secret. Also, now that Gatsby is dead and everything got pinned on him, no one would believe him because Tom and Daisy are too high in status. In all, because Nick was raised to be non-judgmental he got pulled in the wealthy elite’s disaster of lives; which then causes him to become

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