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Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: The Question of Nick Carraway's Integrity
The Great Gatsby: The Question of Nick Carraway's Integrity
In pursuing relationships, we come to know people only step by step.
Unfortunately, as our knowledge of others' deepens, we often move from
enchantment to disenchantment. Initially we overlook flaws or wish them away;
only later do we realize peril of this course. In the novel "The Great Gatsby"
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the journey from delight to disappointment may be seen
in the narrator, Nick Carraway. Moving from initial interest to romantic allure
to moral repugnance, Nick's relationship with Jordan Baker traces a painfully
familiar, all-....
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