The narrators of many novels are not significant to the plot and just serve the purpose of telling the story. Nick, however, is quite the opposite. Though he may not seem to be the main character next to Gatsby, Nick is the one person in the book who is linked to every character and in turn connects them all to each other. Although he is more of an observer than anything in this novel, and is inclined to reserve his personal judgments, he also tries to remain uninvolved and is reluctant to act upon what he perceives to be faults of others.

After his return from War, Nick decides to move to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. One weekend Nick gets together with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a rich man who lives in West Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, a Gas Station owner. On this night Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s and an a

cquaintance of Gatsby Nick's neighbor in West Egg, who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is invited to attend one of these parties and he and Jay soon become good friends. Both have things in common, one being they both know Daisy Buchanan. It is discovered through Daisy’s friend Jordan that Jay and Daisy were once lovers, and that Jay has plans to try to win her back. As quarrels and disagreements irrupt about the love Jay wants to show Daisy she is forced to choose between two men, one from her old life and one from the new life she is living.

Nick also is very responsible for his actions and realizes the brutality and irresponsibility of Tom and Daisy. When Gatsby is shot by George Wilson, Daisy realizes that it was a great injustice and that she should have been the one to suffer that great consequence, because it was really her driving the car. Yet, she does not take responsibility for her actions and goes about her content life full of amenities without even a care for what she has caused to happen. Tom does the same when he blames Gatsby for killing Myrtle just to take the load off of his back, both are very selfish and do not even think about taking accountability for t

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