2. In this first chapter we are introduced to the narrator of the novel Nick Carraway. He describes the mansion of Mr. Gatsby that is next to his house. He talks about his time in the war and how when he came back he wanted to do more. Nick talks about his cousin Daisy who marred Tom Buchanan, a very powerful ends that ever played football. He decides to go visit his cousin Daisy for dinner, upon his arrival he mets Miss Baker. At dinner Miss Backer informs him that Tom has a "women in New York".
3. a. Nick Carraway
b. "And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I wad a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler." (Fitzgerald 5)
c. Nick's best quality is that he is a great listener, he doesn't interrupt Daisy's rants he just listens to her and tells her what she wants to hear.
d. Nick's role in this novel is as narrator telling the reader what's going on and how everyone, including himself is feeling. As narrator he is giving us all the background information on all the characters in the novel.
4. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." -Nick Carraway's Father.
This quote stood out to me because it was the first quote and it was advice that nicks father gave him and he is living by it, it is how he choose to live his life by being non judgmental and I think that is his greatest significance in this novel is his non judgmental ways.
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