Question

A character with this first name insists a woman didn’t make “a scene” in a passage that its author rewrote to remove homoerotic implications with his friend Bill. Keath Fraser highlighted a scene in which a character with this first name wakes up in his underwear in Mr. McKee’s bedroom. A character with this first name breaks up with Marjorie because “it isn’t fun anymore” in the story (*) “The End of Something;” in a different story, that character with this first name is told a Native American woman’s screams are “not important” as his father operates on her with a knife. After moving to New York, a character with this first name dates the masculine golfer (10[1])Jordan Baker. For 10 points, give this first name of Ernest Hemingway’s character with the surname Adams and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s narrator with the surname Carraway. ■END■

ANSWER: Nick [accept Nicholas; accept Nick Adams or Nick Carraway]
<Literature - American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jason ZhangToronto cDNAToronto Sprout11610

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2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y1100%0%0%116.00