We all love being the friend that everyone comes to with their problems. It makes us feel important and wanted that we were told such sensitive information. I personally love this feeling; knowing everything about a situation from all sides. It almost feels god-like to be an all-knowing presence in the group. Nick Carroway must have felt the same way in The Great Gatsby. Everyone confides in him, tells him every little secret, and makes him the all-knowing god of the main characters. He knows every feeling of every person and therefore knows when they lie straight through their teeth. He is the keeper of the drama and never lets on that he has been talking to the other party of the drama. This is how he keeps his reign on drama- he keeps everyone thinking that he is on their side, keeping their trust.
Nick is such an unproblematic king which is why we all love and trust him. He causes no problems and never picks a side so everyone thinks he is on theirs. This makes him such a good narrator because he relays all the information others tell him to us so we can feel like all-knowing gods just like him. We make that face when we read that someone lied about something they just told Nick about just a few pages ago, and I bet Nick does too.he makes everything more interesting for him to experience and us to read by knowing everything and seeing everything unfold dramatically.