The Great Gatsby Reading Response

My favorite character from the story the Great Gatsby was Nick Carraway. He was my favorite character because he seemed to be the only person who had any kind of a moral code. I also liked the fact that he was in a way almost watching all the events that occurred in the story from the sidelines. My least favorite character was Daisy. I found her very superficial and greedy. It seemed that she had no heart the way she destroyed Gatsby's life and didn't even care that she did. She was the kind of person to screw things up and make other people clean up her messes. I felt sympathy for Gatsby. He devoted the latter part of his short life to finding Daisy and getting back with her. In the end she abandoned him and let him take the fall for her mistake which led to his death.

It seems that many of the characters, rich and poor, try to be what they are not. Daisy and Tom each lie to Nick about their situation. We learn in the third chapter that Miss Baker simply lies about everything. Myrtle and the Mckees seem to seize the chance they have to live out of their class through Tom. To me, Nick seems unsure of what he wants. Indeed, he is as he described himself in the opening passage: he is an undecided observer. Gatsby is the one exception. Gatsby does not have to pretend to be something because he is all everyone else wants to be and more. Other characters are even surprised by Gatsby's genuine qualities.