Nick-character analysis

A true friend is a friend that cries for you when you are upset and laughs for you when you are happy. A true friend cares about you and bare with you no matter what happened. Throughout the book, the only person who matches the description of a true friend is Nick. Nick has been a kind and sincere friend of Gatsby. He is the only one whose not one of those party friends who does not care about Gatsby. He cares about Gatsby, stays with Gatsby and he is the only one who helps and goes to Gatsby funeral. When he called Mr. Gatz about attending Gatsby’s funeral and Mr. Gatz was trying to say that he might not come, Nick interrupted and said” Wait a minute, how about saying you’ll come?”(P169) Nick even hangs up the phone since he is disappointed and retarded of people rejecting Gatsby’s funeral. After that Nick felt a certain shame for Gatsby—one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. (169) Nick thought that Gatsby had lots of friends and they would come to the funeral but none of them did. Not even Daisy and Tom, the two people who directly led to Gatsby’s death. Nick is upset and angry about people’s attitude as Meyer Wolfsheim said he can’t do it—he can’t get mixed up with it (171) and Nick cannot understand why people treated Gatsby as soon as he died. He is also mad at Tom since he was the one who misled Mr Wilson to thought that Gatsby was the one who killed Mrs Wilson.

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