The role of the narrator is to establish a link with the outside world and the one in Nick in essence becomes the eyes and ears of the novel. And through himthe basis of opinions that occur on the other characters are created. Nick becomes thesole source for information in the novel. Nick also participates in the novel, and is notjust an observer. Nick provides the novels moral framework.Nick Carraway the Narrator starts off with a little bit about himself as to providesome background on his life. 1"I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of acentury after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migrationknown as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came backrestless.". Nick graduated from a university in New Haven. This provides readers with anidea of his intelligence. Nick was also involved in World War 1 in which he spent sometime in the trenches. The time he spent there changed his perspective of reality, and itchanged his lifestyle. Gatsby was also involved in the war along with Nick so there issome similarities between both Gatsby and Nick therefore a link of similar experiencescan be seen between the two. 2"My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western cityfor three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a traditionthat we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line wasmy grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War,and started the wholesale business that my father carries on to-day." This gives insightinto Nick's background, through his parents and their parents, etc.... for three generations.It gives an idea of his family's social status, which would have been about average backin those days. 3"After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day,only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspape...
