Best Kind of Narration

 My favorite narrator is Nick from The Great Gatsby. The best narrators are ones that don’t just describe what is happening but also keep an air of mystery in the scenes. Nick is placed in the bustling New York of the roaring twenties, as a middle class man in an extremely wealthy circle. This allowed him to come off as relatable and somewhat removed from the other characters to the audience, while at the same time him being very connected to these characters. Nick doesn’t baby the readers by telling them everything all at once. He won’t say that Daisy is being beat by Tom, but will allude that she has blue bruises around her wrist. This embedding of the narrator with the main cast while not babying the audience and also being very entertaining is the perfect mix for a successful narrator. It also allows the novel to be enjoyable by people of all ages, as this narrative style is welcoming but also leave a lot for analyzation of the work of art. There is a great reason this novel is many people’s favorite and is still beloved almost a century after it was originally published.