Throughout the story Gatsby tells a myriad of lies concerning his personal life and occupation. So why does Nick become such grande friends with Gatsby despite Gatsby being everything Nick isn’t and dislikes? Nick likes Gatsby because Nick Sees Gatsby's whole person, and Nick longs to become like him because his passion towards Daisy. Unlike most people, Nick sees past Gatsby’s wealth, and sees his whole character and personality. However, this wasn’t always the case.
Nick is one of the very few people Gatsby considers genuine and in touch with himself and reality. Gatsby in many ways becomes dependent upon his relationship with Nick for emotional support and physical assistance in his pursuit of Daisy. Gatsby draws Nick extremely close to his life and his affairs. Because of his exclusively close relationship with Gatsby, Nick gives the reader a good perspective into Gatsby’s life and thoughts, thereby helping the reader better understand the motives for Gatsby’s mysterious actions. Also, since Nick is an outsider to the lavish and gaudy lifestyle of wealthy Long Islanders, which makes him the ideal narrator of Gatsby’s actions since it gives the novel creditability and establishes a seemingly unbiased perspective.
Although, he is not in love with the Daisy’s personality, he is infatuated by her looks. One could say that he is in love with the illusion of daisy. The idea of her still being the same girl he left behind before going to war is the idea he obsesses over. He does not realize that he can not just pick up where he left off. When he returned to his beloved Daisy, she had broken her promise and married a wealthy man as well as had a child.
And then there is New York City, which is chaos, and in which Nick sees the “quality of distortion” that he frequently speaks of (Great Books: The Great Gatsby. 2003). All of these things lead up to one of the main themes of The Great Gatsby: the spirit of the 1920s, combined with the conflict between social classes. A symbol of this is Jay Gatsby himself, in both his personality and how he changes throughout the course of the story in the same fashion that America does during the 1920s. He seems to be putting on a show, composing a character out of himself that is defined by the rich things he owns to impress Daisy.
Since he is not a full giant ,yet a half blood, he is able to fully sympathize with Harry’s problems. This provides a very valuable trait because he then understands how Harry felt. Since Hagrid always has the best intentions for everyone, he cleverly slips Harry information. It is with this information that he grows and becomes the character he is later on in other books. Rowling used the character of Hagrid for many reasons.
Nick got involved and influenced easily by others’ just because of his temperament character. As Nick had commented himself “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bones.” (pg1), he characterized himself as a tolerant, opened- minded, trustworthy, quiet, and a good listener. As a result, he became someone with whom people feel comfortable to share and everyone else tend to share their “big” secrets to Nick. Tom tells him about his affair, Gatsby tells him about his love in the past with Daisy and even the secret of cheating at golf of Jordan is being told to Nick too. And also because of his nice, caring character, Nick couldn’t ignore and abandon but care and help out for those secrets.
That is, except for the star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague, and Juliet Capulet. This theme of hate in this play written by Shakespeare, encourages us to think about how others hate can come between your own love. Romeo and Juliet took their lives as they could not live without each other. This love that has come to a tragic end has brought the two feuding families to peace. They see that their own hate for one another has ended with the death of the ones they love most, and that they cannot let this continue.
Overall Daisy Buchanan is what motivates Jay Gatsby’s actions and causes mayhem in his life. Jay Gatsby is a very rich man, but not many people know that his wealth is him trying to gain the one person he loves. After returning from the military Gatsby became a very wealthy man, and most don’t know where his money comes from, or why he has it, they just enjoy attending his extravagant parties. At every party Gatsby will check in to see who is there, then disappear. No one understands these odd actions, but what he really is doing is checking if Daisy happens to be there, because she is all he cares about.
166. Print. II. "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever met." This passage is memorable to me because it shows how self-righteousness Nick Carraway is.
Gatsby would do anything to make someone happy. As one of the twins mentioned whilst at one of Gatsby’s parties ‘There’s something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that, he doesn’t want trouble with anybody’. Altogether Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are different in many ways as Tom is an arrogant, sexist bully and has no respect of others around him where as throughout the novel you get a sense that Gatsby is more of a kind and refined character. However Tom and Gatsby have their similarities as they both want Daisy but for different reasons- tom for his persona and Gatsby for true love. And both Tom and Gatsby enjoy their luxurious lifestyles and they both like to party all the time.