Nick

• The nexus of the novel
• See Nick as the moral consciousness of the novel, a person who learns from his experiences, experiences moral growth- Early critics
• New critics- shows no real insight into his own motives, self-centred and ignorant, obtuse, doesn’t understand certain things but thinks he does
• Nick is a flawed and unreliable intradiegetic narrator

  His simultaneous reliability and unreliability make him a modernist narrator