Nick Carraway (1893-1968) was an American bond salesman and author who worked on Wall Street during the 1920s.
Biography[]
Nick Carraway was born in Minnesota in 1893 to a family which had settled in the hardware business since 1851; he was the cousin of Daisy Fay. He attended Yale University with Tom Buchanan, and he served in the US Army during World War I before moving to New York to become a bond salesman in Manhattan. He settled at an old groundskeeper's cottage in West Egg, Long Island, next door to several nouveau riche people, including his cousin Daisy Fay, who married Tom Buchanan. In 1922, he met Jay Gatsby at one of his legendary parties, and Gatsby - a fellow World War I veteran - befriended Carraway, whose help he achieved in reigniting his old love affair with Daisy. He returned to the Midwest after Gatsby was murdered by George Wilson, as he became disillusioned with the East. Carraway was confined to the Perkins Sanitarium after becoming a "morbid alcoholic".
He became an author while at the sanitarium, publishing a memoir titled The Great Gatsby. Later, he married an unknown woman and lived the rest of his life in Chicago, dying in 1968 at the age of 75 from a stroke.
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