The Men of Gatsby

In the story “The Great Gatsby” there were three main characters, Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Each character has their own special trait and main role in the story. The first character I will introduce is the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway. Nick says that is family is very prominent, and they all come from the Middle Western cities. Nick’s dad owns a hardware business that had been inherited from Nick’s grandfather. Nick had lived in the East Egg for a long time, but eventually he decided to move to the West Egg and pursue the bond business. When Nick moved to the West Egg he purchased a very small house that was squeezed in between two huge houses, one of them being Jay Gatsby’s house. Nick is slowly starting to hang out with Jay more and more. He is said that Nick and Jay may soon be business partners.

Another very important character in the story is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is a very strange character. At the beginning of the book you really don’t hear much about him and everything seems to be very secretive with Gatsby. We know Jay has a very big house that is right next door to Nick Carraway. Gatsby has really big parties and has hundreds of people come over, most of who he doesn’t even know of. Jay had invited Nick to go have lunch with him and that really was what started the whole friendship between them. It is later discovered the Gatsby’s real name was James Gatz. As the book goes on Gatsby was really starting to grow fond and slowly flirt with Tom’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan.

The last important character in the story is Tom Buchanan who is a very wealthy man. Tom is married to Daisy who has a thing for Gatsby. Tom and Daisy are always fighting. It is believed that they want to get a divorce but are not allowed to do to their catholic religion. Tom has a very arrogant personality. He is known to have some anger issues and has had some violent encounters with other characters. Tom also is having an affair with another one of the characters Myrtle. Tom has no respect, and doesn’t care what he says or people think of him. He does not try to follow any kind of conduct at all.