"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
             In his famed book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows his readers the main idea behind the whole story in the opening paragraph. This is done purposely. Immediately Fitzgerald has the narrator, Nick, say what his father told him when he was young. That quote is the foundation with which the rest of the book is built around, and is also the reason Nick reacts the way he does throughout the story. This is important because it allows Nick to see the events around him, and to tell about them without tainting them with his judgment. This is crucial to the success of The Great Gatsby, and allows readers the freedom to make their own judgments about F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters.
             Nick, the mild mannered and tolerant narrator, finds himself in the world of the rich and filthy rich throughout the entirety of the story. He is repulsed by the way these people conduct themselves. Yet he patiently interacts with them and learns more about them before judging. It does not take him long to figure out his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom, are so wrapped up in their money that it has made them immoral. Throughout the story, Nick meets many of these sorts of people, and finds them all to be alike: all except for Gatsby.
             The reason Nick's tempered judgment is so key in this story is that it allows him to learn about Gatsby. At first, he could have easily dismissed Gatsby as being just like everyone else. After all, Gatsby did own the huge house next-door to Nick. He threw gigantic, wild parties where the partygoers were not even invited. Nick could have easily judged Gatsby, and decided he was sick with money just like all the others. Yet, if he had, he would not have seen Gatsby for who he was: the only good apple of the bunch.
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