2/9/15 the great Gatsby

Nick Carraway is not being true to his first statement in the sense that nobody can truly reserve judgment from themselves but he does a pretty good job of reserving it from others. On many occasions he talks about his views of the other characters in the book like when he says that J Gatsby is everything he hates but he somehow became acquainted with him. In chapter two when nick was at the party he was judging the conversation for its vulgarity and he was also judging the act of becoming intoxicated indirectly by saying that he had only been drunk one other time in his life and in chapter 3 he describes his new girlfriend as fundamentally dishonest. But he is as he put it “one of the only honest people he knows because he doesn’t attempt to make people more justified than they are, he is only honest about his accusations and characterizations.