The Webster dictionary defines conformity as, a state of consistency or the action of following a custom, view or law. Conforming with society means that someone doesn’t want to speak out against their peers wrongdoings in fear of being singled out. They find it easier to not express their opinions and just go with the flow. It’s human nature to live amongst a pack and people will do anything, right or wrong, to feel accepted into a group. Society has the tendency to view people as outcasts because of their different opinions, morals and past experiences. Both Twain and Fitzgerald chose to portray the path of nonconformity throughout their novels in the eyes of their narrators. Over time, Huck Finn’s and Nick Carraway’s written paths along …show more content…
He sees right through everyone and their lifestyle. He shares lots of his opinions about the characters in the book although, he never actually says them. In Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Nick writes, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . . (Fitzgerald, 179)” Everyone loves Tom and Daisy. They come off as the perfect rich couple but they have their flaws. They’re a messy couple and their perfect life is too good to be true. The whole novel Tom is having an affair and Daisy falls for Gatsby again. They have the perfect American Dream but with a twist. Barbara Hochman, a novel critic, wrote, “Nick's wish to separate voice from body can be related both to his motivation for telling his story in writing and to the functions, for Fitzgerald, of employing the figure of Nick as his own voice, his primary narrating presence in this book.” Nick does not live for the roaring 20s lifestyle because he sees it's ugly truth. It’s his relationship to Gatsby and everyone else that he learns what it’s like to live amongst the rich who only care about themselves and protecting their money. He goes from being someone who never judges to evaluating everyone and separating himself from them after Gatsby’s