Narrative in "The Great Gatsby" - Essay Question: How is Nick and ineffective or effective narrator in "The Great Gatsby"

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the well situated, tolerant and open-minded narrator, Nick Caraway to effectively narrate the story of the morally decaying society in the 1920's Jazz age. Fitzgerald opens the novel by introducing the reader to the narrator, Nick Caraway. Nick has recently moved away from his exhausted and bitter experience in the East and is now telling his story through the filter of time. Nick is recounting these distant events by …showed first 75 words of 1084 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1084 total…Caraway to narrate the novel The Great Gatsby, through carefully placing Nick within and without the dramatic situation. Nick's moral judgments, his past and wealth may be unlike others in the novel. Fitzgerald however carefully positions Nick in relation to Gatsby and Daisy, Nick being able to withhold his moral judgments until the end of the novel makes an effective narrator who is able to engage the reader in the novel. This Essay Contains: 1086 Words