Read the excerpt from fitzgerald’s the great gatsby. the practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and i had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea. he found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month. nick’s recent arrival at west egg and his intention to stay for only a short time underscore the fact that he is not as wealthy as his counterparts. he has just returned from the war. he is being supported by his family. he is an outsider in this community.

he is an outsider in this community.

One of the reasons why Nick is a good narrator is the fact that he is always somewhat untouched by the problems that we encounter throughout the book. From the beginning, it is clear that Nick is an outsider. He has not been raised in the city with all the luxury that his new friends have enjoyed. Moreover, he does not have the money that other characters have. The fact that he was only planning to stay for a short time demonstrates how he is an outsider in the community.

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the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.