The narrator's perspective in The Great GatsbyNick Carraway has a special place in this novel. He's not just one character among many, it's through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions about other characters. Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's position towards those characters and the world he describes with that of F. Scott Fitzgerald because the fictional world he created closely resembles the world he himself experienced. But not all narrators are the author's voice. Before we consider the "gap" between author and narrator, we should remember how, as readers, we respond to the narrator's perspective, especially when that voice belongs to a character who, like Nick, is an active participant in the story. When we read any work by fiction, no matter how realistic or fabulous, we as readers undergo a “suspension of disbelief.” The fictional world creates a new set of boundaries, making possible or believable events and reactions that may not commonly occur in the “real world,” but which have logic or plausibility in that fictional world. For this to be convincing, we trust the narrator. We take on his perspective, if not totally, then at least substantially. He becomes our eyes and ears in this world and we must trust him if we want to proceed with the development of the story. In The Great Gatsby, Nick goes to great lengths to establish his credibility, indeed his moral integrity, in telling this story. story of this "great" man called Gatsby. He begins with a reflection on his own upbringing, quoting his father's words about Nick's "advantages," which we might assume were material but, he soon clarifies, were spiritual or moral advantages. Nick wants his reader to know that his upbringing gave him the moral fiber with which to resist and judge an amoral world, such as the one he had observed the previous summer. He says, rather pompously, that as a result of such an upbringing, he is "inclined to reserve all judgment" about others, but then goes on to say that such "tolerance... has a limit." This is the first sign that we can trust this narrator to give us an unbiased view of the story that is about to unfold. But, as we later learn, he does not reserve all judgment nor does his tolerance reach its limit.