The Role Of Aaron Burr In The Great Gatsby

Born on February 6, 1756, Aaron Burr was the most controversial vice president in U.S. history. He is most infamously known for being the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, but before all of that went down, Burr was a friend and compatriot who fought alongside Hamilton in the Revolutionary War. Burr was beside Hamilton through many significant events, such as being Washington’s secretary of the treasury, his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler, and the death of his son, Philip. Above all, Burr was a witness to Hamilton’s immense love for his country, and his climb to the top where he fought for the approval of all. Much like Hamilton, Jay Gatsby is a climber, but with a companion who only witnesses select events in one period of his life.
Scott Fitzgerald writes the narrator, Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner turned New Yorker, as Gatsby’s neighbor and the cousin of the woman Gatsby is in love with. Acting as a liaison, Nick is a witness of the two worlds in the 1920 society in which the story, The Great Gatsby, takes place. On one side, Nick is a bystander to the life and struggles of a self-made man who climbs up and up, never truly getting anywhere; on the reverse side, the lives of several people who have everything, but it is not enough or those who have little, but want more. Nick Carraway is more than just a narrator who doubles as a go-between of the worlds of the East and West Eggs; he is a witness to the unforgettable and irreparably damaging events in the lives of several people that took place in the span of six