F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby - Nick Carraways Self-Interest

come offs Self-Interest in The wide Gatsby In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a world filled with rich societal happenings and love affairs. His main(prenominal) character, Gatsby, is flamboyant, pompous, and only cares about impressing the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Nick is Fitzgeralds narrator for the story, and is a inquiring choice as a narrator because he is of a antithetic class and almost a different world than Gatsby and most of the different characters in the book. Nick relates the plot to the reader as a genus Phallus of Gatsbys circle, yet he expresses repeatedly his dislike for the man. Nick faecesnot relate to Gatsby because of their heavy personality differences. Moreover, he disapproves of Gatsbys desire to impress Daisy at all costs. However, Nick continues to follow Gatsby because by doing so he can ensure his affinity with Jordan, a celebrity socialite, and because, in a perverse way, Nick can use Gatsby to bol ster his own self-esteem. Nick expresses his opinion about Gatsby quite an clearly I disapproved of him from beginning to end (162). However, he makes this remark at the end of the novel and actually does like Gatsby when he first meets him. I could clear nothing sinister about him (54). Nicks image of Gatsby only begins to be tainted once he learns of his relationship with Daisy. Nicks dislike does not pedestal from jealousy it comes from the fact that Gatsby shapes his life around what Daisy wants. Nick does not see Gatsby as a real person, only as an image plant out to please Daisy and conform to what she desires. The epigraph of the novel states Then wear the coin hat, if that will move her If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, ... ...al element of life, and thereof finds Gatsby foolish as he devotes his life to pleasing Daisy. However, Nick link up himself with Gatsby so that he can gain in social stead and self-regard. Nick wants to be respected, an d Jordan gives him much more respect after he becomes Gatsbys conversance. Thus Nick keeps up the friendship to benefit his love life. He also gains self-assurance because he sees himself as Gatsbys only true friend. Thus it is Nicks selfishness that causes him to develop a rapport with Gatsby even though Gatsby delineated everything for which I Nick have an unaffected scorn (6). Gatsby becomes merely an object, though he is the character that gives his name to the title of the novel. Gatsby is only great relative to Nicks self-interest. subject Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Simon and Schuster Inc., New York 1991.