Is Nick a reliable narrator? How does his point of view color the reality of the novel, and what facts or occurrences would he have a vested interest...

I believe thatis a
reliable narrator, though there are many readers who would disagree with me. He narrates the
story as a first-person objective narrator, meaning that he
describes events after they have already taken place. He has had time to
reflect on how he would like to present these events, giving him the opportunity to color things
the way he would like tomaking certainlook good or bad, whichever he prefers. He knows how
everything turns out, of course, and this could change the way he portrays certain characters
throughout. For example, he tells us right away how he feels about , and he later tells Gatsby
himself that he is "worth the whole damn bunch [of the rest of the characters] put
together." He also comes to understand thatandare not good people and are both entitled and
"careless"; Nick says that the couple "smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." This opinion clearly does
factor in to his portrayal of the couple, even early in the narrative.

Nick
is honest when he describes himself getting drunk, even during this Prohibition Era. He is
honest when he describes his feelings about even honest about her significant flaws tooand one
might imagine that if he were trying to make himself look good, he would obscure these moments.
However, he has become disillusioned as a result of the war and his experiences in New York, and
his narrative simply reflects this disillusionment, in my view.