Nick as an Unreliable Narrator Modernism and Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby The Modernist Element of The Unreliable Narrator
Fitzgerald introduces Nick Carraway to the reader through an internal monologue, in which Nick explains how he came to be involved with Jay Gatsby. During this rumination, Nick states that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments." However, his statement is quickly proven false as he immediately begins to relate his strange fascination with Jay Gatsby, despite Gatsby representing everything for which Nick had "unaffected scorn."