Homework

Nick Carraway is often “enchanted and repelled” by what he sees and I believe shows the contradictions in his character when he says he is honest and non judgemental. In this particular moment when he felt that way, he said “Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves. I wanted to get out and walk eastward towards the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” He was very descriptive and though it isn’t a sign of necessarily being judgemental, he did make remarks about how the place he was in was pulling him to stay even though he really didn’t want to be there. He felt as though the yellow windows were conspiring to keep him there with all of his privileged fascination of a world he has never experienced or been in. He also clearly is fascinated by things he finds disgust in and shows in the ways he has a fascination for being around people he doesn’t understand or is criticizing; mainly because he doesn’t understand himself. He expresses contempt for Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby, but he continues to spend time with them, accept their hospitality, and is even complicit in helping Gatsby and Daisy have an affair. There is a lot to say about his dishonesty and him being judgemental and it always manifests in him being a side character in other people’s lives without the honesty to tell them how he really feels or his real intention