Character List. Nick Carraway-The novelâs narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business.ay Gatsby-The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune.
â¢ COUNTERACTIVE (adjective). The adjective COUNTERACTIVE has 1 sense: 1. opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action. Familiarity information: COUNTERACTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination. 2. (of children) displaying exaggerated physical activity sometimes associated with neurologic or psychologic causes. 3. hyperkinetic.