Gatsby Analysis
Tiffany Hwang
Mrs. McCown
American Literature 4
16 October 2007
The Observant Participant
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick is a character who is often part of a situation, yet never fully involved in the situation. He is able to see through the two different perspectives, and although he is never completely unbiased, he gains surprising insight from these two roles. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick’s summer spent with the Buchanans and Gatsby, both as an observer and as a participant in the action, becomes his passage to maturity; in the end Nick clearly sees the carelessness and selfishness surrounding his wealthy “friends.”
Throughout the novel, Tom and Daisy are constantly displaying their innate heedlessness and egocentricity, and as Nick observes and participates, his perspective of the couple becomes more and more negative. From the beginning of the story, it is clear that Tom and Daisy have a rocky relationship and an......
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