Title: The Great Gatsby Author and Date written: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920's Country of Author: U.S.A., Minnesota Characters: Nick Carraway (Major) - Not only does he narrate the Great Gatsby, but he also plays a role as a character in the novel. He is a down to earth man with normal views and emotions. The reader gets to cherish him as the mediator of what is right or wrong in the plot. He …showed first 75 words of 2185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2185 total…dging people, so the reader is constantly curious, wondering if he is telling the whole truth and if he has left any situations out of his telling. This first person narrative makes the novel concise so that he can summarize and even skip certain parts of the character's lives. Nick Carraway considers himself one of the few honest people left, and the reader is inclined to trust what he thinks and says about the characters.