This comparison may come off as strange or unseen for those familiar with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. How could Fitzgerald’s storyteller, Nick Carraway, be similar to that of the butler. Well, they have more in common than meets the eye. If you take away from the fact that Nick narrates Fitzgerald’s story, he makes no real impacts on the story by his own device, but instead does what others instruct him to do. Sounds like a servant or perhaps a butler right?
Geoffrey, the do-it-all butler of the Banks household, is an accurate representation of Nick and his role in The Great Gatsby, but Geoffrey does more as a character in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air than Nick does as a character in The Great Gatsby. Nick’s only real role in the story is to be a servant to Gatsby and assist him in whatever way necessary to get him back with Daisy. However, Geoffrey’s role may not to be to reunite Will Smith with the love of his life, Geoffrey serves as Will’s caretaker, as well as, the Banks family. Geoffrey and Nick are both just servants of the protagonists of their stories which is why, although surprising, they are so similar in their roles in the novel.