CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF “THE GREAT GATSBY”
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I. Take notes on any 4 characters.
Nick Carraway:
- Nick, is the narrator of this story. Every single episode is described as he sees it. This can be seen by the usage of the first person when Nick expresses himself “In my younger and…” (page 1).
- As Nick explains us in the first chapter, he is from a wealthy family and comes from the mid-west part of the U.S. We also know that Nick lives in New-York, Long Island, in an area called West Egg. He studied at New-Haven and graduated in 1915. That is where he met Tom Buchanan. He knows Daisy too because she is his cousin.
- He says he is in the bond business. He thinks the bond business is a good one because “everybody I knew was in the bond business”.
- At his arrival in New-York, he becomes the neighbour of a rich man: Mr. Gatsby. This is how Nick gets involved In the relations between the Buchanan’s and Gatsby.
- Nick has a quite strange relationship with Jordan Backer a GOLF PLAYER, in fact, it can be said that it is a quite ambiguous relationship. This relationship will end at the end of the book “I don’t know which of us hung up with a sharp click, but I know I didn’t care.”
- Nick is a fair person, for every event or person he encounters; he always has a judgement for it. That makes him fair but an honest man too.
- It’s only at the end of the novel that Nick realizes that Gatsby is a great person.