ast. When it was Gatsby's own love-blinded judgment which gets him into trouble, and even a dilemma with the law as in the phone calls Nick gets after Gatsby's death. And so Fitzgerald has brought to us the purpose of his novel.When an author creates an unconventional narrator, as he has done with Nick, it draws attention to the story as fiction. Ironically, in doing this, he has created in Nick a figure who more closely resembles an average human being and thus has heightened the realism of the novel. The realism comes from the fact the majority of humans are flawed and bias in ways that many times, they cannot realize, such as Nick. ...
