Examples Of Judgement In The Great Gatsby

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It is human nature to have judgements on people and their actions, but not everyone shows these judgements. For some people it is quite hard to keep feelings out of the things other people do. Reliability is from facts, not feelings and Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, gives everyone’s point of view while leaving his feelings out. Nick tries his best throughout the novel to reserve his judgement and remain unbiased while telling the stories of everyone. Nick grew up with his father teaching him that judging others is not good because no one knows what they are going through. Also his father would tell him that he should not criticize others because some people did not have all the advantages that he had. By his father constantly telling him things like this, it caused Nick to grow up with great morals and the ability to not judge, or at least not come off as if he is judging. The advantages that his dad was referring to include the following: having a great education, having generations of family that have done well for themselves, having no financial stress, and being able to afford everything he has and still be able to do what he …show more content…

One situation being when he said, “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” He said this while with Tom and Myrtle and to me this shows he is emotionless at times because he feels as if he is there but not actually there. By saying this it sounds like at times Nick feels included and other times he does not which causes him to feel emotionless to many things. He also said something very similar when he was at Gatsby’s house with Gatsby and Daisy. By him continuously saying things like this it shows that he feels this way a lot which causes him to be emotionless and therefore unbiased throughout much of the

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