Characterization;
-Believes that women are susceptible of being dishonest and lack consideration for other people.
-Believes that there is a "quality of distortion" to the city of New York and the way in which people lead a life in there; wealth-obsessed culture."That's my Middle West...the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark..I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern Life." (chapter 9)+loss of equilibrim in chapter 2 when Nick gets drunk at Gatsby's party.
-Believes that he is an honest person when in reality, he is in the fault of his own, moral depiction; he tends to describe himself as tolerant and non-judgmental, while he subsequently views himself as morally privileged, believing that he is most virtuous as opposed to the people that surround him, which proves that his "honesty" is only relative to the environment that he is a part of. As a result of the following, Nick's surroundings greatly alter his narrative as well as his personal outlook of himself as a person.
Isn't critical of men being involved in side affairs despite being already married. The following can be seen in Chapter 2 where Nick does not seem to mind that Tom is freely enjoying his infidelity in public with Myrtle in New York.
-Nick has a very reserved and indecisive nature. For example, when Jordan states that she is drawn to Nick's carefulness, he thinks that he loves her
"for a moment" but later elaborates that he is "slow thinking" and "full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires." (pg.58)
-Coming to the end of the novel, we see Nick's struggle to integrate his own sense of the importance of the past with the freedom of the past due to the fact that he has been so heavily embodied in
values that are rooted in the past, or in the traditional values that are a highlight of his previous life in the Midwest. (hard work, perseverance, justice)
