Theme Of Judgement In The Great Gatsby

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“‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember the advantages that you've had…’ In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments,’” (Fitzgerald). Fitzgerald spoke of how the main character was to keep his opinions concealed; however, this is ironic because opinions are openly talked about. A narrator who tries to act like their views are not prejudice, even if they are, can be defined as a limited narrator. Nick Carraway tells the reader he is not judgemental, but in reality the entirety of the novel is filled with his own judgements. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, used this method of imperfect narration to tell the story, which causes the novel to be biased, limited, and judgemental. The course of the novel contains Nick’s thoughts and feelings about the characters he comes in contact with, which brings a biased view to the story. Nick thinks of himself as an open-minded person, but shortly into the book this is proved untrue. "It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to …show more content…
Nick claims that he is honest and nonjudgmental. However, like all humans do, Nick makes many judgements of people throughout the entirety of the story. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.’” The opening of the book displayed that Nick was privileged and intellectual, but also judgemental. He spends the beginning of the story trying to get the reader to believe that he is an honest person and that he should be trusted as the narrator. Him having to persuade the reader makes the audience skeptical of how trustworthy and non judgemental he actually