Nick Flashcards
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Early Critics’ View:
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- See Nick as the moral consciousness of the novel, experiencing moral growth through his experiences.
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New Critics’ View:
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- View Nick as self-centered, ignorant, and lacking insight into his own motives. Consider him flawed and unreliable as a narrator.
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Nick’s Flaws
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- Nick is considered a flawed and unreliable intradiegetic narrator due to his lack of self-awareness and understanding of certain events.
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Simultaneous Reliability and Unreliability
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Nick’s portrayal as both reliable and unreliable makes him a modernist narrator, reflecting the complexity and uncertainty of modernist literature.
