The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is like a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Each
person becomes their own narrator determining the plot and words on every page.
Like looking through a magnifying glass, the narration of each life becomes a
novel with a story and plot visible through the heightened image presented.
“This isn’t just an
epigram-life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after
all (Fitzgerald, Page 4).” In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, the reader looks
through the single window of Nick
Carraway’s perspective as the novel takes a first person narrative point of
view with limited omniscience. This becomes an influential and crucial part of
the novel as the reader sees everything from Nick’s objective yet open
standpoint and opinion of events. From the introduction of each character, their
descriptions and qualities, and opinions of events, the story becomes directed
by the management of Nick, his reserved judgment, his opinion of these past
happenings, and his curiosity about 1920s society. It is his character the
reader becomes attached to as the reader looks through Nick’s eyes out of the
single window of his perspective. In
just the first several pages of the novel, the reader analyzes everything from Nick’s
objective and honest view as Nick becomes Fitzgerald’s voice and the reader’s
eyes.
From a single view and through a single window, the reader focuses
on a single story. As told from the first person point of view, The Great Gatsby invites the reader into
Nick Caraway’s past as through a looking glass. Thus, it becomes a story of the
beginning, middle, and end of the lives that pass by the window.
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