/lit/ - Literature

>Gatsby doesn't stand-out as a person to Nick at their first meeting
>Nick later describes some of Gatsby's expressions as unique because they have the effect of expressing that he has full-faith in you as opposition to the 'external world' or something like that
>Daisy nervously jokes to Nick that she wonders if he is in love with her
>Nick narrates Gatsby's childhood and time as a YA with Daisy in immense detail and also with Gatsby's emotions at the time. a character could only narrate at this level if it was one of their own memories
>they were both in the army/WWI
>Gatsby's arrival in NY only pre-dates Nick's by like a year or 3 i think
>Gatsby and Nick leave NY around the same time

>yfw Nick and Gatsby are the same person