What Is The Point Of View In The Great Gatsby

In his book, “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents his own point of view about the American society in the 1920’s. He believes that people in the East coast lost their values and lost the American dream. He makes Nick Carraway an intelligent young man who isn’t fast to judge, is educated, who more or less has moïral value, and who is also looking. From this point of view we are able to judge other characters and see what F.Scott Fitzgerald thinks about this time in history. From the beginning we can see that at this time the economy is doing well and people are eager to move up the social ladder. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is moving to long island where he wishes to learn the bond business. Once there he lives in West egg where Gatsby is his neighbor. From the first few chapters we learn that Gatsby throws parties every Saturday to which most people aren't actually invited. “ I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guest who had actually been invited.” “I was immediately struck
At the very beginning of the book when Nick goes visit his cousin she makes a very interesting comment: “ I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing this girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” This shows what it was like to be a girl back then. One can derive from this quote that there is no place in society for smart women at this time. By wish that her daughter is both beautiful and a fool, the reader knows that she has to be beautiful to marry a rich man and a fool to not be hurt when she is played like Daisy was. We can also tell from Daisy’s decision to stay with Tom, a wealthy man, instead of going Gatsby that the social status was most important. While it isn't fair to say that Daisy represents all women at this time, it is safe to say that she represent a percentage of that people living in the east coast at this