uth by the finish.
             In Hemingway's cynical, narrative technique, he chooses one of his main characters, Jake Barnes, to be the untrustworthy narrator. "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together" (12). At one point in the book, Jake meets up with the character Mike Campbell. Though Mike is Brett's fiancé, Jake completely admires him. Jake is untrustworthy here, because in reality, Mike is a horrible person. Towards the end of the novel, Jake realizes this. He later believes that Mike should not have acted so rotten to Robert Cohn. Jake remains the ironic narrator, who views the world, of which he is reporting, with skepticism and sarcasm.
             In contrast, Fitzgerald gives the reader a trustworthy narrator, Nick Carraway. In the first chapter, Nick provides the reader with an explanation of what type of person he is, and where he comes from. From Nick's explanations, the reader is able to trust Nick, one hundred percent. "I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler..." (8). Throughout the book, the reader travels on the journey to find the validity in Nick's story of Gatsby.
             Direct and indirect characterizations are also important to each book. Jake Barnes, the protagonist of The Sun Also Rises, is described as being untrustworthy. He is a newspaper reporter, born in Kansas City, who is wounded in the
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