THE GREAT GATSBY

About writer 

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularised. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

About The Great  Gatsby 

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

We had a movie screening  of The Great Gatsby at our department  so as per my understanding of Nick's  character as a narrator  I have written this blog.

Nick carryway as a narrator:When the movie starts there is first character was introduced as narrator and he was nick carraway. He remained as a silent  observer in the whole movie. Even though he also knew about all the characters ' nature and secrets.

 

When the movie began, Nick Carraway  was in the psychopathic clinic. He was quite innocent,  he is also a cousin of Daisy buccan.he is a character who takes the audience 8 years back in 1922. When nick tells us a story the year was 1929. So it is clear that the movie is going with flashback scenes.He addressed Gatsby as a very hopeful person he has not ever seen before.

He Firstly tells that he was a neighbour of Jay Gatsby who was living in the west egg. Nick is living besides the west egg. As the movie goes further, Jay Gatsby  specially invites  Nick Carraway to his party , because Jay  Gatsby knows that Nick is the cousin of daisy. 

After that party  scene Gatsby  and Nick  met again at the house of Gatsby where he  talked about the relationship between Daisy and him but as in the movie showed that Daisy is a woman who loves materialistic  things very much. because of that she got married with Tom, but as our narrator speaks in the very beginning that as Gatsby was a very hopeful  person and this characteristics  also observed  through his character even though Daisy got married Gatsby has hope that she will come back to him.

As a narrator nick seen many characters like Tom,mayor wolfshim,George Willson  and many other character but nick does not say award about that character  even if he observe every single moment of the  characters. The scene of  Tom which represented  violent, cruelty of Tom though the narrator is present in that scene but he didn't  do anything he remain silent. (The scene is given below.)

When the Gatsby told  about relationship of daisy&him though as a  brother and he also knew that daisy is married  he doesn't  take any actions against Gatsby.

 

When the Gatsby speaks that he learned  man from Oxford University nick know the fact that he became rich by the Gambling &wrong doings but as a narrator nick was not released  the dark side of the Gatsby. It is the Tom's  character  who  knows the reality of Gatsby.

In the last sequence  when Gatsby told Tom that daisy loves him and Tom asked about truth at that time nick also knows that daisy  loves Gatsby but she didn't  go with Gatsby though at that time he also remain slient as a narrator. he  does not give any compliments  or any judgment  or any comments to the characters.

In the middle part of the  movie the narrator said that I am within without so it means that nick remain neutral in whole movie he is not judged  any character