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Nick Caraway - Coggle Diagram
Nick Caraway
Nick at Tom's apartment
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'casual watcher in the darkening streets , and i was him too, looking up and wondering. i was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustable variety of life'
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Nick and the Aristocrats
Class
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'they're a rotten crowd' i shouted across the lawn. 'you're worth the whole damn bunch put together' pg146
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Towards the end of the novel, Nick takes on the voice of Fitzgerald.
Nick at Gatsby's party
Appearance vs Reality
'everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: i am one of the few honest people i have ever known' pg59
Jordan later challenges this 'honesty', 'i thought you were an honest, straightforward person', his honesty is often questioned.
Questions Nick's idea of honesty, he continues to spend his time with morally corrupt people and enables Gatsby's affair with Daisy while continuing to liaise with Tom: he lies to both himself and others.
Fitzgerald primes the reader to question nicks honesty through his linguistic choices: 'suspect' as opposed to believe encourages the reader to call into question the veracity of this statement: to suspect implies a degree of uncertainty and the verbs negative connotations subtly undermine his assertion of virtue.
NICKS DISHONESTY
He consistently contradicts himself: an example of this being he does not scoff at Daisy and Gatsby's relationship as much as he does Tom's affair with Myrtle - is this due to the class difference between T + M that makes their relationship less valuable.
His moral inconsistencies make Nick narrations and moral judgements throughout the novel questionable.
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Linked to Fitzgerald's views on religion - Nicks prioritisation of truth, morality and judgement - he plays the puritan.
Nick and Gatsby
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'i found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone' chp9
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