Nick Carraway is our narrator for this entire story. He is the source of all of the dramatic events, parties, tragedies, etc. that we hear about in the book. The character description that Nick gives himself is someone who doesn’t pass judgment on others, is tolerant as well as honest. Nick earned a spot in this amazing novel because he is Daisy’s cousin and later on Gatsby’s sidekick. While reading this book, our own interpretations of Nick would be him having that innocent look and naive looking as well. The pictures below show the actors that played Nick in the 1974 and 2013 Great Gatsby movies. It’s quite interesting to see how well actors/actresses are casted in these movies because although these two films are 39 years apart, they both do such a great job of showing us what Nick would look like in real life. In my personal opinion the 2013 Nick Carraway is a better representation of the character just because of the idea of Nick that I had in my head. There are many similar features I see in the 2013 Nick and my own version of Nick that I came up with in my head while reading the book. The 1974 Nick is not too bad as well. He too has a naive and innocent look and great style of course. I used to think that Nick’s character was only relevant because he was the narrator of the story but there is more to him than just being Daisy’s cousin or Gatsby’s sidekick. He is the middleman of this entire operation. He is the eyes and the ears of this story. It’s important when making these movies to make the reader/watcher feel like they are actually seeing all of the events from the book take place in the film. The 1974 and 2013 movies did a great job in showing us the shy yet honest sidekick Nick that we read about in the book.
