Nick Carraway is often seen as a good guy among bad people. But a careful reading of The Great Gatsby wrecks this common interpretation of the character.
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Nick Carraway's Implied Authorship
3:07 Reserving Judgments?
4:28 Casting Tobey Maguire as Nick
5:27 Nick and Tom Buchanan
7:12 Nick and Jordan Baker
9:47 Only an Observer?
11:54 An Unreliable Narrator
13:18 A Bad Person Among Worse People
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Film Credits:
The Great Gatsby. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire, Warner Brothers, 2013.
The Great Gatsby. Directed by Jack Clayton, Paramount Pictures, 1974.
The Great Gatsby. Directed by Robert Markowitz, Granada Entertainment, 2000.
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