Ending of Chapter III - Nick Carraway and F.Scott Fitzgerald, both writers of 'this book.'

Fitzgerald allows Nick to claim authorship of the book. Towards the end of Chapter III as Nick is 'Reading over what I have written so far' (P56) and commenting on his own reporting of the events of that summer. Fitzgerald thus injects the role of omniscient author by allowing the personality of Gatsby to emerge seemingly at random through the contingencies of Nick's life in New York and through Nick's perceptions. Events which Nick did not - and could not - witness are reconstucted from others' accounts and retold by him. By this means, although Gatsby's name is given to the book, the story we as readers are told is equally as much to do with Nick's own mind and his own moments of crisis (often moral/ethical ones). Through the process of writing about Gatsby, Nick himself is on his own journey of discovery too. In this sense, we can consider The Great Gatsby, like The Kite Runner, to be an example of a bildungsroman - a genre of novel which focuses on the psychological, moral, emotional and spiritual growth of a central figure from youth through to adulthood.