Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which character in The Great Gatsby serves as the novel’s narrator?"
...F. Scott Fitzgerald frames The Great Gatsby through the observant, quietly reflective voice of Nick Carraway. A Midwesterner who moves to Long Island to learn the bond business, Nick becomes the lens through which readers experience Gatsby’s lavish parties, the tangled relationships of East Egg society, and the underlying moral decay of the Jazz Age. His narration shapes the tone of the novel—sympathetic yet skeptical—and offers critical distance from the glamour and tragedy surrounding Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of the American Dream.
