Nick Carraways Secret

Whether reading it for fun or examining it for English class, if you are reading 'The Great Gatsby' you must have had to think about Nick.  He is the narrator of the book so what you think of him will shape you opinion of the whole novel.  But for someone so central to the plot he doesn't talk about himself much.  If you do look a bit closer things don't quite seem to add up, and it bothered me for a little while until, when discussing the book with a friend, it was suggested Nick was gay.  Do you have a sneaking suspicion too? or are you looking for something unusual to add to an essay to surprise an examiner.  Here is is my attempt to get Nick out of the closet

Great Gatsby quotes speak eloquently on a number of topics, class, the American Dream, the corrupting power of money but all Nick ever seems to talk about is how gergous Gatsby is.  The only time I heard him say soemthing different is when he was calling him handsom.  He follows Gatsby arround like a love sick puppy completly under his spell.  Daisy says if he wants to kiss him he can and he turns he down, but when Gatsby says lets go to lunch he jumps at the oppertunity.

Yes he does have relationships with women, 3 if your counting, but he isn't a cassanova by any standards.  You would hardly notice unless you poured over every page, one of the girls is only justified with 'i even had a short affair.'  Then there is his famously akward break ups and the marginal reasons them.  The first because he was scared he was going to get peer presured into marrying a girl (so scared he moved state), the second because the girls brother was looking at him funny and the 3rd, Jordan, because he needed more time to think about Gatsby.  Maybe he wanted to look up other words for gorgeous in the thesaurus.

And last but not least there is his, well, one night stand? I don't really know how to describe it.  GO and read the end of chapter 2 again and you'll see what I mean.  They leave the party together, they end up semi naked in his bedroom and then the next think we know it's 4 am and Nick is getting the trian home.  All this is described in very little detail i guess thats is one of the perks of being your own narrator.