The Great Gatsby

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Nick the Neutral Character

In today society, many people like to “go with the flow”. Which mean, it does not matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and do them without any thinking. There are not too many people would like to not go with the flow or be a neutral person that does not take sides. However, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, one of the character name is Nick Carraways, he was the good and neutral narrator. In the novel, he analyzes all of the things with regard to accuracy of observation.
In The Great Gatsby, when Mr. Gatsby told Nick he wanted to return the past over again with his lover- Daisy, Nick Carraways warned him to give it up, because it was impossible. Unfortunately, Mr. Gatsby did not believe it. Mr. Gatsby was close but his dream still had not come true because Daisy did not break up with Tom and go with him. It can be seen in the last chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murdered, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeral. “I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.”(172) This proves Nick Carraways's was right but Mr. Gatsby didn’t listen to him.
Nick Carraways is always there when there is an interesting situation or good conversation going on. When Nick went to Gatsby's party, he described the drunken lady telling everyone Gatsby killed a man before. “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.”(48) Also, there is another lady said that Gatsby was a German spy. Once Nick got to know Gatsby, he knew all those rumors were false. Gatsby told Nick that was an Oxford man and showed him that fought in World War One. Nick was there with Tom when he visits Myrtle and when he hits her. He was even there at the table when Gatsby told Tom that Da...