"1) An independent percpective of the relationship from the middle class allows Fitzgerald to accomplish this. Nick Carraway is "the voice of Fitzgerald's rational self."2) In expressions in the novel, Fitzgerald gives light to his rational self. That's my Middle West - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all - Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.3)Fitzgerald himself took trains back to the Mid-West at christmas time to celebrate and party.4) In this passage Fitzgerald also tells the truth about his views of Eastern rich society, where he didn't fit in.It can also be argued that Fitzgerald also represents himself in the character of Jay Gatsby. In the characterization of Gatsby, Fitzgerald includes his own youthful idolizing ideals and emotions. While Daisy was clearly the symbol of Ginevra King, "Fitzgerald originally based the figure of Gatsby on a stock manipulator he'd encountered in Great Neck and then let change into himself."1) Indeed, Fitzgerald didn't really know the model of Gatsby in the early stages of the novel. It's not until page 48 till Gatsby is actually presented in the novel after many mysterious and romantic models have already been sugested. Gatsby is prompted up with rumors that he's the nephew of the Kaiser, or that he had been a German spy in the war, or that he went to Oxford, or even that he has killed a man. He is described with mystery and signs the invitation card with a "majestic hand"2). In Fitzgerald's own words, "Gatsby was never quite real ...
