Nick Carraway, Unreliable Narrator of The Great Gatsby

For the dramatic delivery of the genuine voices of the chaotic, decayed world of America’s 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces a unique narrative technique that allows Nick Carraway, a ch-aracter within the novel, to tell the story. As the narrator, Nick conveys those voices vividly based on his own memories, and as a ch-aracter, he also participates directly in the action, closely interacting with other main ch-aracters. In fact, Nick is in the perfect position for telling the story as narrator. As a second cousin of Daisy Buchanan, the college classmate of Tom Buchanan and the next-door neighbor of Jay Gatsby, Nick links every main ch-aracter, acting as a crucial bridge, and provides an eyewitness account of the major incidents that they confront. He is at the center as a vital piece that communicates the events and the ch-aracters. Despite his best possible position as an ideal narrator, Nick Carraway proves to be an unreliable narrator by exposing numerous shortcomings, includin…