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In The Great Gatsby, the story is told through the eyes of an active, biased, participant. Nick has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character between several, it is through his eyes and ears that we shape our opinions of the other characters. Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's position towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald's because the fictional world he …

…created a most interesting character in Nick because he is very much a fallible storyteller. When an author disrupts an accepted convention in the art of storytelling by creating a narrator like Nick, it draws attention to the story as fiction, as artifice. Ironically, in doing this, he has created in Nick a figure who more closely resembles an average human being and there for has heightened the realism and the adventure of the novel.