Nick Caraway

1. Nick Caraway of The Great Gatsby

2. The Narrator Sees Everything… • Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, experiences all events that occur in the novel from his own perspective. Which is why The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” stood out as the song that describes some of the character’s attributes. “Every smile you fake Every claim you stake, I'll be watching you Every move you make Every step you take, I'll be watching you.” – from “Every Breath You Take”

3. Quotes "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had…" -Nick Carraway, Page 1 • Nick puts this saying at the very beginning of the novel to let his readers know that his account was not written as a way to criticize the characters involved. It is another way to ensure the reader that he is being honest and accurate in his descriptions.

4. Quotes I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth." -Nick Carraway, Page 1 cont.

5. Quotes “We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around...” “…‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’” -Nick Carraway, Page 164 • During this juncture in the novel, the audience finds evidence that Nick Carraway’s character thinks Gatsby is better than the affluent, but often disrespectful group of people that the protagonist is associated with.

6. Quotes "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…" -Nick Carraway, Page 191

7. Quotes “And as I stat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He head come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did no know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." -Nick Carraway, Page 193 • This quote shows how Nick observes the world, and it also relates to success, in that he thinks that Gatsby was so focused on one aspect that he didn't realize he could've been successful elsewhere.

8. Nick Carraway’s shades of grey In Fitzgerald’s novel, the narrator, Nick Carrway, is the least interesting character, because he only provides commentary on the story he is telling. Point being, Nick’s lack of action and skill of reporting makes him often seem likea dull character. This is why our group found that the color grey was a suitable color to describe his disposition throughout the novel.