Who is it!

Well here I go jumping into book number two for summer reading! As I was reading the first bit of The Great Gatsby, I was instantly intrigued. Fitzgerald does a great job of luring the reader straight into the book. I found that even if the first few pages there were many insightful life lessons. As the narrator is speaking, he elicits on advice that his father once gave him, "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had" (Fitzgerald, 1). I really thought this quote was profound and quite deep for only being the first page of the book. As the first chapter continues, I am thoroughly confused as to who the narrator is! I can tell that the narrator is affluent and comes from a wealthy family, but other than that, I could not pinpoint who the narrator was specifically. I eventually was able to conclude that the narrator was a Carraway. The Carraways were indeed a wealthy and prominent family. Another question I asked myself while reading The Great Gatsby was, "Who is Gatsby?" He is referred to a few times by the narrator, but he remains a mysterious, somewhat ominous character. Obviously he plays an important role in the novel, I mean the it's not called The Great Gatsby just for fun.