The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway, -the quiet, reflective Midwesterner who adrift in the lurid East, a young man from Minnesota, travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business- is the owner if the eyes through which we see the other characters and the situations in which they live in. However he becomes more of a character than just a narrative selection. He is the only character in the novel to exhibit a sense …showed first 75 words of 699 total…

…showed last 75 words of 699 total…to Nick, even though it seemed to be much of how Gatsby gets treated. At the start of the novel Nick says how ‘wild unknown men’, and ‘veteran bores’ confides in him. After reading, and reflecting back through the events of the novel, it is recognized that Gatsby confided in him also and this was just another one of those problems he was ‘lending an ear to’ but eventually became moved by the catastrophic ending.