Thus far in my second reading of Gatsby, it has been interesting viewing Nick Caraway as a third generation mid- western immigrant. After his family gained prominence in the mid-west, Nick was able to attend college and move east to West egg. Interestingly, Nick reflects that in coming to this new place, he is a “guide, a pathfinder, an original settler” and as a result is no longer lonely. In other words, nick experiences a fortitude that derives from his individualism similar to the individualism that Turner mentions in his thesis. However, important to keep in mind, is that Nick is immigrating to an already established society with strange and elitist norms that seem to consume everyone, and therefore he is not an original settler.