Nick grew up in Minnesota then went to school at Yale. He fought in world war 1 and ended up moving to New York to pursue in the bond business. Nick is one of the main characters and is also the narrator of this story. He lives in west egg in a small house and is cousins with Daisy who Gatsby is in love with.
- “I am inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.” Nick isn’t judgmental and doesn’t have many opinions. He keeps to himself and doesn’t share what he thinks.
- “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. “ Nick is saying that when he came back he was shocked by peoples lack of morals. Everyone is selfish not and all they want to do is have massive parties in there big houses. he wants thng to be organised.
- “…wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.” Nick feels like a checker piece and tom is the player moving him around. This shows that Nick is easily told what to do or he cant really say no.
- “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
I think that Nick is more on an observer tan rather being in the middle and having all the attention on him. He’s quite quiet and he’s attracted to the busyness of life. Nick is interested on whats going on around him
- “Most of the time I worked…I knew the other clerks and young bond salesmen by their first names…I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction…” Nick is very career driven person and it seems that he is very close with all the people he works with. He’s passionate about his work. And he works to make a living. He cares about his work friends because he’s taking time to learn their names. He cares what people think about him, and he wants people to like him.
- “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” Nick is quite confident and up himself by thinking that he is one of the only people that he has meet. He thinks he is a really good person.
- “They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together!’ I’ve always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.” Nick thinks that Gatsby is better than Tom and Daisy. He thinks that Tom and Daisy are a rotten crowd because all thr bad stuff that they have done but Gatsby has also done alot of bad stuff.
- “I shook hands with him. It seemed silly not to for I felt suddenly as though I was talking to a child.” Nick sees Tom as being childish and nick was just being polite by shaking his hand.
- “I sat there brooding on the old unknown world…” Brooding means thinking deeply about something. This shows us that Nick is a thoughtful person because he reflects on things.
At the start of the book Nick was shown to be a non judgmental person and he was seen as a person with good morals. All the characters seemed to trust Nick. But by the end of the book I saw that Nick had a lot of strong opinions on people even tho he was seen to be a non judgmental person. I think that since he moved it change him a lot. He didn’t like the environment with all the snobby upperclass rich people.