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1925
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nick Carraway
Our narrator: a Yale-educated young man from a solid Midwestern family, newly arrived on Long Island to learn the bond business in the summer of 1922. Reserved, observant, and slow to judge, he has a habit of drawing confidences out of strangers almost against his will, and a poet's eye for the world passing in front of him.
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Nick's Father
Nick's father, the steady head of a prominent Midwestern family with interests in the hardware trade. A man of few words and quiet authority, he is the source of the measured, rather patrician advice his son has been turning over for years.