Important for developing his character. He was raised with working class roots despite his father’s money and connections. If he had grown up around all that privlege, he would not have seen Gatsby for who he was.

Nick is like the poor cousin in a rich family. The mid-west conservative values that he would have experienced are in direct contrast to the wild, extravagant lifestyles of the New York social set.

3 comments: First, you’re complicated intelligence with training and stupidity with lack of understanding. a man or woman’s inherent intelligence is previous their administration. the problem with Christianity is that it particularly is purely too often used to justify a definite willfully ignorant worldview. 2nd, large intelligence often places an adolescent at odds with their friends and motives large sadness at a time while acceptance seems so significant. the consequence is that particularly clever infants often fail to advance the emotional adulthood they must handle their lives. The particularly clever are often compulsive perfectionists and their very own severest critics. finally, i think of you’re maximum suitable — that persons of known intelligence have an much less complicated and happier existence. 0.33, a man or woman who’s the two clever and knowledgeable often feels they create a particular social burden, an legal duty to humanity to apply their presents wisely, to help enhance the human problem and combat social injustice. That places them immediately at odds with prepared faith, which persists in cutting-edge cases by encouraging the truthful to stay willful ignorant and by making incessant demands for mandatory social uniformity.

I think he comes from a simpler, more genuine way of life, so he gets to comment on things from the perspective of a bit of an outsider.