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Explain what fitzgerald achieved by using nickâs point of view to tell gatsbyâs story?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to achieve a totally different perspective on the story by using Nick's point of view; Nick is more detached from the lifestyle.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Great Gatsby" is a novella written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novella is written in the first-person limited perspective; told from the point of view of Nick Carraway.

Nick is the cousin of Daisy in the novella. But the narrator of the story is reliable as Nick is impartial in his judgment. Nick, as he states at the beginning of the story, is reserved in his judgment as taught by his father and thus gives freedom to the readers to form their own.

Nick's lifestyle is also detached from that of Gatsby and Buchans which again gives an impression of unbiased narration.

Nick's narration also helps to understand that most complicated character of the story and that is Jay Gatsby, whom no one was able to understand.

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