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Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Character Analyses, Critical Commentary and Essay Questions

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses, Critical Commentary and Essay Questions

Character Analyses

Nick Carroway:

The narrator of the novel, Nick, represents the traditional moral codes
of America. Himself from the Midwest (which contrasts to the East of Long
Island and the world of the Buchanans), Nick is attracted by the beauty, the
wealth, and the sophistication of "The Wasteland" - but comes to understand
the essential emptiness, the gaudy display of "nothingness" which
characterizes the Wasteland itself. As the critic Arthur Mizener remarks, the
novel is, in a ...

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