The character of Nick Carraway has been analyzed by scholars for nearly a century and has given rise to a number of critical interpretations.
After witnessing the callous indifference and hedonism of the idle rich during the riotous Jazz Age, he ultimately chooses to leave the eastern United States forever and returns to the Midwest. Carraway is easy-going and optimistic, although this latter quality fades as the novel progresses. He facilitates a sexual affair between Gatsby and his second cousin, once removed, Daisy Buchanan which becomes one of the novel's central conflicts. He is a bond salesman and the neighbor of enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby. The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Nick Carraway as portrayed by actor Neil Hamilton in The Great Gatsby (1926)
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