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A five page paper looking at F. Scott Fitzgerald's unusual choice of a narrator in this novel. Nick Carraway is not a protagonist in the novel, yet his very distance from the heart of the story enables us to learn a moralistic lesson from the tale in a way that wouldn't have been possible if the tale had been told from either of the protagonists' points of view. No additional sources.
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novel actually concerns a millionaire by the name of Jay Gatsby, and his love affair with the married, self-centered, and beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The book is narrated, however, by Daisys
cousin Nick Carraway, who seems to stumble into a pivotal role in their lives: although Daisy and Gatsby met many years before and Gatsby has never been able to forget
her, it is through Nicks intervention that the two doomed lovers are brought together again. Nick is obviously essential to the story for this reason -- but why would Fitzgerald
make him the narrator? Most novels are narrated by the character around whom the action revolves. In this case, that would be either Daisy, or Gatsby himself. And yet we
would get a much different story if it were narrated by either of them. Daisy might begin with her charmed girlhood (mentioning, of course, her initial meeting with Gatsby, then
a young serviceman); her story would continue through her marriage to the bigoted, snobbish, and ignorant Tom Buchanan to her reunion with Gatsby, and follow through to the empty days
after his death, when she is back with Tom again. We would see Gatsby through her eyes rather than Nicks; it would be a much more personal retelling of their
affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would learn early on that this
elegant yet mysterious gentleman was once plain James Gatz of North Dakota, determined to become a member of the upper-class; as a child, he kept a notebook in which he
listed his resolutions for life, including "no more smokeing or chewing [tobacco]" and reading "one improving book or magazine per week" (Fitzgerald, 153). If Gatsby were the narrator, he himself
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