apparent only because of the chosen point of view. Nick Carraway, like the other main characters of The Great Gatsby, is a immoral, undesirable individual for the first part of the novel. However, he is unlike the others because he is the only one we see change. Nick sees that there is a “horror in every consuming vision.” (Eble, 95) The following change is a process of acknowledging and amending his character flaws, namely the contradictory, unopinionated and misleading aspects of his nature. Fitzgerald realized that the first person point of view had to be from Nick’s perspective because only then would the reader be able to see the changes in Carraway. As a result, The Great Gatsby serves as an epic story in American literature but also as a pioneering comment on the snobbish ways of American upper class society. ...
