Nick Carraway - Biased Narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays

come off Carraway - Biased Narrator of The Great Gatsby       The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a novel that tells the story of diametrical peoples lives and how they are intertwined with each(prenominal) other. The story is told from the viewpoint of the vulcanized fiber Nick Carraway. It is through his eyes and ears that the lector forms their opinions of the other characters. In the novel the characters trust Nick and confide in him quite a bit. He thinks of himself as an open minded non- count onmental, non-partial person. I think that it is almost impossible to live your life and non judge others and also not be partial and judge different individuals with different standards.   Nick wants the readers to believe that the way he was raised gives him the right to rule out judgement on a immoral world. He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is inclined to set aside all judgements about other pe ople (page 5). His saying this makes it gullm handle we can trust him to give a fair unbiased level of the story that he is telling, but we later learn that he does not reserve all judgements. Nick further makes us feel that he is a non-partisan narrator by the way he tells of his past. We come to see that Nick is very partial in his way of telling the story. This is shown when he admits early in the story that he does not judge Gatsby because Gatsby had a extraordinary gift for hope, a romanric readiness. This made Nick much loyal to Gatsby than other characters in the book.   Nick overlooks the wrongness of Gatsbys bootlegging, his known associations with speakeasies, and with the character Meyer Wolfsheim, a man rumored to have fixed the World Series in 1919. Yet he is disapproving of Jordan Baker for cheating ina golf game. He also says that he is prepared to forgive this sort of behavior in a woman, It made no difference to me. Dish iodinesty in a woman is a thing you cannot blame too deeply, I was causualy sorry, and hence I forgot it seems like he cant accept her for being incurably picaresque and then he says that his one cardinal virtue is that he is one of the few honest people he has ever known.