Homework

Option A: Advantages Nick Carraway, the narrator of the great Gatsby novel, was told by his father that whenever he felt like criticizing anyway, he should remember that everyone in the world has not had the advantages he has had. Over time, Nick attaches a great deal to the significance of the advantages. This paper seeks to establish those advantages, the characters that have them and those that do not have them. It also establishes how to gain or lose them and the various ways that these advantages were earned. First, Nick was so reserved with judgments since he is so impartial in the way he treats others. He is slow to judge and his silence was misunderstood at times by those around him (Fitzgerald, 9). He rarely commented on peoples’ actions and words and was therefore thought as being snobbish. This is an inborn character that Nick acquired from birth. Also, Nick was born from a prominent and well-to-do family that enabled him access quality education (Fitzgerald, 10). He graduated from New Havens which one of the best schools in his locality. This enabled him gain popularity and fame. This was form of blessing to Nick and was granted as birth. Finally when Nick moved to the East to seek for greener pastures as bond salesman, his business kicks off and grows rapidly because of his hard work (Fitzgerald, 15). This was as a result of his relations with Daisy, his cousin, and Tom Buchanan who helped him grow his business while he was in East Egg. Because of Nick’s reserved character, both Daisy and Tom found it easy to confide in him with their personal issues. This acted as an advantage to them because they found a confidant in Nick’s character.