In his timeless novel, "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick Carraway to tell his amazing story. The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a man who attempts to recreate his past through altering his identity and obtaining enormous wealth to win over his lost love Daisy, who married Tom Buchanan while Gatsby was fighting in World War One. The interesting thing about how F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this story is that it is through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor and basically the polar opposite of Gatsby. There is a lot to talk about concerning the character of Nick Carraway because he plays a crucial role in the development of the stories and is connected to all of the main characters. Both Carraway’s values and his ambivalent admiration towards Gatsby help us relate to the character of Nick Carraway and help us understand the action of the novel. Nick Carraway’s character and values are extremely important to the development of the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald fashions Nick Carraway as a boring, scholarly and honest new arrival to the east coast of the United States in the 1920’s. He arrives on Long Island during the Jazz Age and notices that the lives of the people living there have been corrupted into believing that nothing is wrong with the world and their emotions are no longer genuine. Nick is the perfect narrator for The Great Gatsby because his unquestioning moral beliefs aid the reader in understanding the corrupt period that the Jazz Age was. Nick is a product of his upbringing because he says he has morals, but he really only thinks the way he was taught by his parents to think. Because of this Nick falls short of his claimed strong values and high standards. Nick says, “I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon” (29) which implies strong morals, but then Nick also tends to be prejudiced. He makes comments about Jordan Baker saying, she is “incurably dishonest” (58) and he also states that “dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply” (59). He says these things after he learned that Jordan cheated by moving her golf ball in her first golf tournament. This makes Nick feel distrust towards Jordan, but he states that her dishonesty doesn’t really make a difference to him. His education also shapes his values. It especially separates him from the rest of the characters in the novel. Nick is a graduate of a very prestigious university, Yal