In The Great Gatsby, is Nick a reliable narrator? He embodies a unique role because he is both narrator and participant. How does his point of view...

When examining the question of whether a narrator is reliable, the real question is
whether you can trust the story the narrator is delivering. In some stories, like Poe's
"The Cask of Amontillado," there are numerous red flags that the narrator is
intentionally lying or trying to deceive the audience/reader so that his own purpose is
ultimately fulfilled.

isn't an intentionally deceptive narrator. It seems
that he tries to deliver the events of the story as clearly as he can. But, being human, he does
bring some biases to the story, such as his dislike forand his affections for. However, the
story he tells does not contradict any other evidence of a different truth that we are given in
this story. He does relate that he is "one of the few honest people I have ever known.
While this does make the reader proceed with caution (people who have to tell you they are
honest instead of relying on their own actions to speak for themselves generally throw up red
flags), it does...