Was Nick in the Great gatsby gay?
Gee! I do not understand why some people choose to answer the question just to write “I dunno”. I do not consider Nick to be gay or that “The Great Gatsby” has homosexual innuendos. I think that the character of Nick was created to fulfil certain purposes. First and foremost we know what happened through him, because he witnesses all the events and in some way he shares with us his perspective of things; secondly, Jay Gatsby, which happens to be the main character altough Nick has the largest credit in the novel, needs a foil and Nick seems to be the counterpart. For instance, while Gatsby has at least one purpose in his life (to earn Daisy’s love); Nick seems to go by adrift. While Gatsby is a celebrity; Nick is almost “some guy”. Their relationship reminds me the kind of bond that existed between Marlowe and Kurtz in “The Heart of Darkness” wherein the first admired and told us everything about the second. But the admiration had no source in sexual attraction but in other moral or so
