F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway - Character analysis in A Level and IB English Language & Literature


	Personality	Role
	Man of Morals Lonely Imperior Superior	Nick plays the role of the first person narrator whose job is to recount and describe the story and guide the audience He is the observer & assistant to the resurgent love affair between his cousin Daisy and Gatsby He is the main protagonist To alter the current mood and theme of the novel as it shifts according to his defined characteristics
	Development (Growth & change)	Quotes & Terminology
	Nick starts as a 'man of morals' but his ever changing shift in characterization shifts according to the current theme of the novel He falls into the illusion of New York and the people he meets and his personality changed to accord to those in West & East egg After Gatsby's death Nick 'see the 'error' of his ways' and his characterisation shifts back to the original - 'Daisy and Tom are careless people - Leaving others to clean up their mess'	"—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn" (Parenthesis, subordinate clause structure, noun phrase) -Gatsby may be low-class, but Nick still manages to see something good in him, anyway. Maybe he has the "natural decencies" that other members of high society don't. " and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot" (Noun subordinate clause, noun phrase) -The parties are full of people who instantly forget each other, or never even knew each other to begin with.

Nick plays the role of the first person narrator whose job is to recount and describe the story and guide the audience
He is the observer & assistant to the resurgent love affair between his cousin Daisy and Gatsby
He is the main protagonist
To alter the current mood and theme of the novel as it shifts according to his defined characteristics

Nick starts as a 'man of morals' but his ever changing shift in characterization shifts according to the current theme of the novel
He falls into the illusion of New York and the people he meets and his personality changed to accord to those in West & East egg
After Gatsby's death Nick 'see the 'error' of his ways' and his characterisation shifts back to the original - 'Daisy and Tom are careless people - Leaving others to clean up their mess'

"—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn" (Parenthesis, subordinate clause structure, noun phrase) -Gatsby may be low-class, but Nick still manages to see something good in him, anyway. Maybe he has the "natural decencies" that other members of high society don't.
" and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot" (Noun subordinate clause, noun phrase) -The parties are full of people who instantly forget each other, or never even knew each other to begin with.

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