Nick carraway is readers’ guide through the events of the great gatsby. in some ways, he is a good guide, and readers benefit from hearing his observations. in others, he is a faulty guide. analyze the pros and cons of nick’s narration. cite specific examples from the novel in your response.

Nick makes a good narrator because he tends to be the unbiased party. He can be considered reliable because many of the character choose to trust him. He also depicts a character of a well-educated and honest narrator. He is an average person, which allow him to make connections with the audience. Just like one of lines in the story where he said, “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.”, which is a familiar experience in true-life.  On the other hand, he is an unreliable narrator because of the fact that, even though he claims to be non-judgmental, he lets his judgments of people be swayed by his own standards and expectations and misstate his descriptions.

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.

the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experiences.