Gatsby

In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character who appears so little, but yet is so influential. He is responsible for so much action on the part of the main characters, but he himself does very little. The name of this character is Michaelis. He is described as the young Greek who ran the coffee joint in the Valley of Ashes, but a careful reader might implicate him as …

…have cleared Gatsby’s name, and solved the whole problem. If he called someone else to help him watch over the disturbed George Wilson then Myrtle might never have run into the street, and if he sought help after Myrtle’s death then Wilson would never have been able to wander the East Coast in a mad state looking for revenge. Michaelis, though a very small character, his actions had gi-normous repercussions in the end.