Why is Nick Carraway made the narrator of "The Great Gatsby"?

is the
narrator for several reasons, but the chief reason is his subjective and sympathetic view of .
In Carraway's lyrical hands and romantic eyes, Gatsby becomes greater than just a vulgar,
pretentious grifter and con man in a pink suit who aims too high and loses his life as a
consequence.

It is important who tells your story, and in Carraway's telling
Gatsby becomes no less than a symbol of the American Dream. To Fitzgerald, the American Dream is
the recurring hope of his European ancestors that they could remake the past. They could, they
thought, come to this green,...