Term Papers on The Great Gatsby: The Question Of Nick Carraways Integrity

Term Paper Title	The Great Gatsby: The Question Of Nick Carraways Integrity
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The Great Gatsby: The Question of Nick Carraway's Integrity

     In  pursuing relationships, we come to know people only step by step.
Unfortunately, as our knowledge of others' deepens, we often move from
enchantment to disenchantment. Initially we overlook flaws or wish them away;
only later do we realize peril of this course. In the novel "The Great Gatsby"
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the journey from delight to disappointment may be seen
in the narrator, Nick Carraway. Moving from initial interest to romantic allure
to moral repugnance, Nick's relationship with Jordan Baker traces a painfully
familiar, all-to-human arc.

     Nick's initial interest in Jordan is mainly for her looks and charm.
Upon first sight of her at the Buchanan's mansion, he is at once drawn to her
appearance. He Notes her body "extended full length" on the divan, her
fluttering lips, and her quaintly tipped chin. He observes the lamp light that
"glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles
in her arms." He is willing to overlook her gossipy chatter about Tom's extra-
marital affair, and is instead beguiled by her dry witticisms and her apparent
simple sunniness: "Time for this good girl to go to bed," she says. When Daisy
begins her matchmaking of Nick and Jordan, we sense that she is only leading
where Nick's interest is already taking him.

     It is Jordan, then, who makes Nick feel comfortable at Gatsby's party,
as we sense what Nick senses: they're becoming a romantic couple. As they drive
home a summer house-party, Nick notes her dishonesty but forgives it,
attributing it to her understandable need to get by in a man's world. She
praises his lack of carelessness, tells h...

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