Great Gatsby Analysis
Nick is a war veteran and a normal man thrust into an abnormal situation. He is thrust into circumstances out of his control and experiences events that make him question his life views and morals. He considers these events much more endearing and life changing than his previous life experiences in the “Great War” or World War 1 or his studies at the Ivy League University. The reason that these events affect him more than the other life changing events he had previously experienced is because they were events that have put into question his sense of high morality that was inculcated to him since he was a child.
Nick is now a difficult situation. He is conflicted and is questioning himself. His sense of high morality that he was raised with has been called in questioned. He has had more than a taste of ‘the Roaring Twenties’ in the most powerful experience possible. He became friends with Jay Gatsby and associated himself with that circle of people. He saw firsthand how immoral and dishonest people can be and most importantly he saw that those with power and money are the ones most responsible for that. He sees firsthand the way the elite socialites are; he witnesses the sycophantic suck-ups, he experiences firsthand the two-faced friends, he even comes to witness the freeloaders and the immorality of the high class elite socialites. This has driven a blade into his personal ideals and ideas of peoples. He has become conflicted with how to view the world and he has come to odds with his high standards.
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