Gatsby Blog post #1

In the first three chapters of The Great Gatsby, Nick is the hero, Gatsby is the antihero, and Tom is the villain. Nick is the hero because he is the narrator of the story and the narrator is almost always the hero. Nick also shares similar values with the audience, which makes him the hero. For example, when Nick was describing his emotions to the reader during dinner in the first chapter, he says "I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes" (15). This feeling happens to me all the time, so with that I think Nick is the hero. I think Gatsby is the antihero because we don't know much about him. We know he stays out of the party scene, and for that we give him respect, and we also know the book is called The Great Gatsby, so he has to somehow play a big role in the book. An antihero is someone the reader usually doesn't know much about at the beginning, and that is Jay Gatsby. Tom is the villain in my eyes because everything he does is against my values. He cheats on his wife and flaunts it around, and he is abusive to his mistress. For example, when Nick and Tom were in the city partying, "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke [Mrs. Wilson's] nose with his open hand" (37). This is blatant abuse and it is not tolerated in this society, so Tom Buchanan immediately becomes the villain.