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Full Book Analysis. The Great Gatsby is a story about the impossibility of recapturing the past and also the difficulty of altering one’s future. The protagonist of the novel is Jay Gatsby, who is the mysterious and wealthy neighbor of the narrator, Nick Carraway. Although we know little about Gatsby at first, we know from Nick’s ...
After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island (home to the newly rich), Nick quickly befriends his neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby (James Gatz). As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The story is told entirely through Nick’s eyes.
Nick Carraway. The first-person narrator, an observant Yale graduate who moves from the Midwest to NYC to be a bond salesman and quickly falls in with Tom, Daisy, Jordan, and Jay. He ends the novel completely disenchanted with the old money elite, who turn out to be horrible people.
The bookish protagonist of the movie, Nick Carraway is a WWI veteran, a Yale graduate, and an aspiring bonds salesman on Wall Street. When we first meet him, he is at a sanatarium, diagnosed with alcoholism, anxiety, fits of anger and insomnia. He looks back ruefully on his experiences living in New York, pained by his memories of the past and ...
Myrtle’s death, George’s suicide, and Gatsby’s murder are all the result of Gatsby’s quest to have Daisy for himself. Tom, Daisy, and Nick’s decisions to leave the east are also caused by Gatsby’s actions. Despite his power to change his life and the lives of others, Gatsby fails to attain his goal. He dies without having won Daisy ...
We've got a list of the main characters in The Great Gatsby right here, and we promise we'll stay mum on Hollywood's casting decisions until you've decided for yourself. Nick Carraway. (Click the character infographic to download.)Okay, Gatsby's name is the one in the title—but we still think that Nick is the major player.
Best Character Analysis: Jay Gatsby - The Great Gatsby. The man, the myth, the legend: Jay Gatsby is the titular hero of The Great Gatsby. Nick first comes to know him as an incredibly wealthy, mysterious man who throws lavish parties, but we eventually learn his background: a boy from humble origins who is desperate to win back the love of a ...
