My Selection — Nick Carraway

A character from the novel, “The Great Gatsby”

The author’s limited edition, handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby. Photo by author.

Fitzgerald has to establish ‘ethos’ — the speaker’s credibility

Beginning The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald needed to work on developing the narrator who had the burden of telling the story of this Gatsby. And guess, what? He’s not in an asylum, like in that stupid…