Nick Flashcards
Nick’s maturity and smart decision making
“practical thing”
Nick finds comfort in nature, highlights how lonely he is
“friendly trees”
Nick’s lack of relationships
“lonely” “alone”
Even relationships with animals fails highlights how he is inevitably alone
“dog” “ran away”
Language barriers also makes Nick’s relationships fail
“Finnish woman…muttered Finnish”
Nick was no longer lonely as he felt that he fitted in West Egg
“I was lonely no longer. I was a guid, a pathfinder, an original settler”
New opportunity and chance at life for friendship
“life was beginning over agin with the summer”
Nick is easily influenced
“entangled in some wild, strident argument.”
“pulled me back as if with ropes”
Foot in both worlds introverted extrovert
“I was within and without”
‘enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”
His life of summer haunts him due to grief.
“haunted” (WE)
Nick is not like carless people
“Leave things in order”
Even though his relationships fail he makes sure to leave them on good terms unlike Tom and Daisy
“talked over and around what had happened to us together, and what happened afterward to me”
Nick is careful about his decisons but seems to almost doubt himself when leaving Jordan
“I wondered if I wasn’t making a mistake” “say good-bye”
