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  1. Oct 2025
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      This is an interesting perspective, and I completely resonate with Nick's character being very lackluster, especially with the grand personalities that he associates himself with. I wonder if Nick would appear less bland if he was less ignorant of his own bias? We discussed while reading the novel how Nick may have some biases towards Gatsby because of his involvement in World War I and seems to type the women as frailer and more elegant in a way, as if they are not capable of understanding the things he does. Many times, throughout the novel we see that Nick is rather ignorant, and there are many things that he simply does not pick up on that are happening right in front of him. I kind of enjoy Nick's narration style and the idea that he is the one "normal" character in a world full of very curious people, yet unfortunately that is tainted with his unreliability as a narrator that makes him much less appealing.