The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how money helps corrupt people's lives, but Nick Caraway tries to help people to take a different path and see life from a different perspective. The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s, when dramatic and theatrical change occurred. During these periods, more Americans survived in cities than on farms, and more people gained wealth. However, some individuals became careless about the change while others became very aggressive, which caused more trouble than celebration in the 1920s. Fitzgerald characterizes Nick as a naive person living in the roaring twenties as can be seen from his attitude which causes Nick to take advantage of himself and people using his happiness of optimism. This reveals how people during the 1920s social classes began to combine, but wealth helped them further separate themselves and have a naive appearance towards others. Fitzgerald characterizes Nick as naive when nick describes the advantages of his house in West Egg instead of the defects of his house. . Nick comments that “I lived in West Egg, the – well, less fashionable of the two, although that is a very superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very end of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and sandwiched between two huge houses that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand dollars a season. The one to my right was a colossal affair by any measure… My house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been neglected, so I had a view of the water, a view part of my neighbor's lawn, and the comforting proximity of millionaires, all for eighty dollars a month. These lines show Nick as naive because he never gave the exact flaws of his life. That's why the Buchanan family was able to escape in peace. Nick refers to the Buchanans as "careless people" at Gatsby's funeral because he never judged them to actually have a Buchanan personality trait at first. To conclude Nick Caraway has what many of the other characters lack - personal reliability and his intelligence to not be - judgment elevates him above others. He alone is rejected by the deceitful society Nick was the only one moved by Gatsby's death when the others disappeared, Nick, unable to believe that none of Gatsby's associates will even pay their last respects, picks up the pieces and makes sure that Gatsby let him not be alone in his death. Over the course of The Great Gatsby Nick develops from a man who visualizes a fortune to a man who knows that wealth brings sadness..