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  • You gotta love a law that allows the state's Inspector General to accuse former State Police Superintendent Melvin Carraway of impropriety, but refuse to discuss the details.

    More Tale from Mitch's Blame Squad Cass Dems 2005

  • You gotta love a law that allows the state's Inspector General to accuse former State Police Superintendent Melvin Carraway of impropriety, but refuse to discuss the details.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Cass Dems 2005

  • The 2000 A&E Network version, starring Mira Sorvinoas Gatsby’sblue-blooded loveDaisy Buchanan and Paul Rudd as his friend and celebrant Nick Carraway, is what it is.

    70s Cinema: The Great Gatsby « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010

  • I bring up Fitzgerald not because my dear friend and late colleague Nick Dunne resembled that other Nick — Carraway, that is — but because he so thoroughly defied the great novelist’s most famous axiom.

    In Memoriam: VF Daily Brenner, Marie 2009

  • And over a long career writing for glossy magazines I played Nick Carraway to any number of Gatsbys.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Rich Won't Speak For Themselves. So I'll Step Up. Jesse Kornbluth 2011

  • And over a long career writing for glossy magazines I played Nick Carraway to any number of Gatsbys.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Rich Won't Speak For Themselves. So I'll Step Up. Jesse Kornbluth 2011

  • But Fitzgerald doesn't say that, because (like his narrator, Nick Carraway) he is "simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life," and part of him deplores such dissipation, albeit with exquisite detachment.

    Great Scott! The Guy Could Write Blake Bailey 2010

  • And, somehow, over the course of the play, that guy in the blue shirt becomes Nick Carraway, the narrator of the book, friend and confidant to self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby.

    Great American Novel Gets Unique Stage Treatment 2010

  • As he reads aloud, his co-workers slowly morph into characters from the novel, reading Fitzgerald's dialogue as lines, while he transforms into the book's narrator, Nick Carraway.

    The Show Must Go On (and On) Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

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