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- In today society, many people like to follow the
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- current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not
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- matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just
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- follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are
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- not too many people would like to be a normal, thoughtful nor
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- neutral person. However, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by
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- Scott Fitzgerald, one of the character name is Nike Carroway, he
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- was the good and neutral narrator. It was because, in the novel,
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- he analyzed all of the things with regard to accuracy of
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- observation.
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- In The Great Gatsby, when Mr.Gatsby told Vick he wanted
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- to return the past over again with his lover- Daisy, Nike
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- Carroway warned him to give it up, because it was impossible.
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- Unforturately, Mr.Gatsby was not believe it. So at the end,
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- Mr.Gatsby's dream still had not came true because Daisy did not
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- break up with Tom and go with him. It can be seen in the last
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- chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to
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- somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's
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- funeray.
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- I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
- called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
- she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
- taken baggage with them.
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- Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these
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- clear observation.
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- However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees
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- everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during
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- the people discuss about something at a time, he does not believe
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- it is true. After he proves it, he will accept the truth.
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- Moreover, when Nike went to Gatsby's party, there is a
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- drunk lady telling everyone Gatsby killed a man before.
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- Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.
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- Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a
- German spy:
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- It is more that he was a German spy during the war.
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- Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a
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- lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show
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- him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not
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- a German Spy nor a murderer.
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- Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove
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- Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, Nike's
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- first though Gatsby killed Mrs.Wilson. But after Gatsby told him
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- all of the things at that moment, then Nike was thinking and
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- discuss between Gatsby and Tom's speaking, and make his own
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- conclusion. Therefore, Nike was a thoughtful man and his is not
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- afraid to face anything around him. By these facts, he had a
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- clear mind and reliable in his observations, so it can make
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- people believe Nike Carroways was a neutral and clear mind
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- narrator of this novel, because this can be seen in Nike's
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- personality.
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- In the novel, Nike was also a neutral narrator too
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- becasue he is the narrator who described everything clearly and
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- accurately. He was trustful because he described everything
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- without any personal point of view; By the way, throughout the
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- whole story, he didn't defenses for any characters nor put any of
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- his self-feeling in it. That's why he is a character who strived
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- for neutrality.
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- On the other hand, when Mr.Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy
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- will leave Tom because she loves Tom no more, it's full of fire's
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- atomsphere and emotion.
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- " I've got something to tell you, old sport- " began
- Gatsby. But Daisy guessed at his intention.
- " Please don't!" she interrupted helplessly." Please
- let's all go home. Why don't we all go home?"
- " That's a good idea." I got up. " Come on, Tom.
- Nobody wants a drink."
- " I want to know what Mr.Gatsby has to tell me."
- " Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's
- never loved you. She loves me."
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- At that time, if Nike was not in a neutral position, he
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- must help Gatsby or Tom. But, he did not join in the argument
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- between Gatsby and Tom. He just put himself in a corner, keeping
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- quiet and see whatelse would happened in page 131 to page 135.
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- Therefore, we can see that Nike was a neutral man and a
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- narrator who just care on the truth observation for sure in here.
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- It is so clear that Nike was a trustful man, so, by his
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- unjustice information, and his truthful and accurate observation,
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- the reader were sure that he is standing on neutral position,
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- and the person who does not follow other people. By his
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- Fantastic personality - does not believe everything nor what most
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- other people said easily, it shows that Nike can standing on
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- neutral position truly because of his knowledge and clever.
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