This essay concludes that Nick Carraway, first-person narrator of The Great Gatsby, is cast by Fitzgerald as a closeted homosexual and proposes reasons why Scott Fitzgerald portrayed him this way and did so without making Nick's gender orientation more clear. #NickCarraway #TheGreatGatsby #Gay #Carraway #Homosexuality
Who in their right mind would ask a teenager to write a 4000 word essay on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald anyway? To me, English class was simply the fine art of over analyzing very old pieces of literature. It was usually pretty easy for me to string together some intricate sounding sentences about these old novels...