Essay/Term paper: The great gatsby 4

Essay, term paper, research paper:  The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
In today society, many people like to follow the current.
They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not matter
if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and
do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are not too many
people would like to be a normal, thoughtful nor neutral person.
However, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, one
of the character name is Nike Carroway, he was the good and
neutral narrator. It was because, in the novel, he analyzed all of
the things with regard to accuracy of observation.
In The Great Gatsby, when Mr.Gatsby told Vick he wanted
to return the past over again with his lover- Daisy, Nike Carroway
warned him to give it up, because it was impossible.
Unfortunately, Mr.Gatsby was not believe it. So at the end, Mr.
Gatsby"s dream still had not came true because Daisy did not
break up with Tom and go with him. It can be seen in the last
chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to
somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's
funerary.
Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch
with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him
that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not
a German Spy nor a murderer.
It is so clear that Nike was a trustful man, so, by his
injustice information, and his truthful and accurate observation, the
reader were sure that he is standing on neutral position, and
the person who does not follow other people. By his Fantastic
personality - does not believe everything nor what most other
people said easily, it shows that Nike can standing on neutral
position truly because of his knowledge and clever.
In the novel, Nike was also a neutral narrator too because
he is the narrator who described everything clearly and accurately.
He was trustful because he described everything without any personal
point of view; By the way, throughout the whole story, he didn't
defenses for any characters nor put any of his self-feeling in it.
That's why he is a character who strived for neutrality.
Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove
Gatsby's car and killed Mrs. Wilson in a car accident, Nike's first
though Gatsby killed Mrs. Wilson. But after Gatsby told him all of
the things at that moment, then Nike was thinking and discuss
between Gatsby and Tom's speaking, and make his own conclusion.
Therefore, Nike was a thoughtful man and his is not afraid to
face anything around him. By these facts, he had a clear mind
and reliable in his observations, so it can make people believe Nike
Carroways was a neutral and clear mind narrator of this novel,
because this can be seen in Nike's personality.