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nick carraway is the novels narrator,he is a man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn about the bond business. he becomes friends with his neighbor Jay Gatsby and he is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan.

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"I am one of the few honest people I have ever known."
at the end of chapter 3, nick claims that he is one of the only honest people he has ever known. this may show that he has a hard time trusting people, or he's been betrayed a lot.

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"I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon."

nick says this on the first page of the novel. he is foreshadowing a story, which is his life, that he gets involved with 2 opposing men.

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nick lives in the west egg district of long island. it is a wealthy area where he lives near his classmate in college tom and his neighbor is jay gatsby.

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nick visits his cousin daisy. this action was somewhat the start of this novel. had nick never visited daisy, his life wouldn't have gone in the direction it did. conversely, he did go to toms house and that caused his life to go in a crazy direction. it made him a stronger and more confident person, but at the same time made him go through tuff times.

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nick get in between the the affair of daisy and gatsby. daisy is with tom for some time when she made a promise to get back with gatsby when he becomes rich. this shows that nick is a caring person for people close to him, but also can make bad decisions.