The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-3

Having talked about hero, antihero, and villain in class, I am sure that you are completely clear on what all three are. And knowing that, you also are aware that how you classify chraracters into one of these categories is a very personal thing. 

Looking at first three chapters of The Great Gatsby, make some predictions about these characters and (unlike Nick) classify them into one of the three categories - hero, antihero, and villain. Give ample reasons for your classification, with support for the text (that means quotes...and page numbers).

• Nick Carraway appears to be the main character and most likely an antihero. He is honest, nice, and relatable. "In that consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores." (ph 1) Nick is the person you would go to when you needed someone to discuss your personal issues with, that fine confidant everyone wishes to have in their life. It seems he will become an antihero because he doesn't seem to have an distinguishable heroic characteristics. 
• Tom Buchanan resembles a villain in my eyes. "He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner." (pg 7) The word supercilious gives off a negative vibe - who wants a stuck-up, conceited man to become the hero of the story?
• Jay Gatsby is a hero or an antihero. He is admired by all and shows no signs of malicious or evil behavior. He is the character we all anticipate to be brought back into the plot once he momentarily disappears. "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandably. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may across four or five times in a life." Gatsby is continuously idolized and therefor the reader ultimately wants nothing more than Gatsby to be the hero of the story.