Why Is Nick Reliable In The Great Gatsby

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Javillonar 1 Shemaiah Javillonar AP Literature Period 0 The Great Gatsby In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick, the narrator, narrates in 1st person; involving interpretation of the novel’s events through the narrator. Nick watched the events unfold, like the illustrations of the book are two eyes looking over the city, which would be Nick, who is a witness in the story. There are so many reasons why Nick is a reliable narrator. Nick is a reliable narrator because first of all, Nick is cousins with Daisy whose husband is Tom which they met at college and he is also next door neighbors with Gatsby so he makes a great eyewitness for these three, off the batch because he links all of them together which sets most of the main ideas of the story. If Nick wouldn’t have known or have been close to most of the characters he wouldn’t have been reliable because he could’ve been making up the story and making assumptions about all of them.…show more content…
This is another reason why he is a reliable narrator. Another reason why Nick is reliable is that he uses dialogues from other character’s so, he doesn’t just tells us what is happening, he uses the characters to tell the story as well so we know what and who is speaking at that moment. If he were the only one talking, some

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