The Great Gatsby and "The Good life"

Nick Carraway 

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Nick Carraway is another one of the characters who is morally sound.  He is not as financially comfortable as Gatsby or Tom, but he isn’t as poor as George.  Nick is a WWI veteran from Minnesota who later moves to New York to learn the bond business.  He surrounds himself with a great friend in Gatsby, but he doesn’t have the companionship like Tom has with Myrtle. Nick is the closest to living the good life in the book.  He doesn’t lie to anyone, judge anyone, or cheat on anyone.  Nick’s character traits leads to him become confident in many of the characters.  He is almost there in surrounding himself with people he cares about.  Nick played an important part of the rise and fall of the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby.  Fitzegerald’s use of Nick in the novel as a narrator leads to the reader questioning and inquiring about the history of him.  Nick had mixed feelings about the east coast which leads to an internal conflict, and if his relationship with Gatsby was able to continue he probably would have been able to be more financially stable.