When the novel first begins Nick begins telling us how he reserves all judgments for people, reflecting on his father's words of advice, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had" (5). He holds true to this statement throughout the beginning of the novel. As a narrator, Nick reserves his final judgments for each of the story's characters until the very end. That is not to say that from time to time he makes small references to certain symbolism or incidents that are key indicators to character flaws. Yet the reader feels no sense of real criticism emerging from him although even as he is exposed to an arrogant and snobby Eastern society which lacks so much in the moral category. As a matter of fact he tends to admire the rich from afar and desires to obtain their apparent stature and wealth in spite of what he witnesses.
As the novel progresses Nick even overlooks Tom's womanizing, keeping secret from Daisy his knowledge of Myrtle and the actual meeting
of the mistress. In fact he so wants to distance his self from the immoral deed, that he chooses to drink himself into some what of a stupor in order to get through the moment. Nick appears to reserve all judgment of the many characters in the novel by not interfering, scolding or breaking a confidence at any point in the story. In fact he boast about his inbred fundamental decencies acquired at birth yet states tolerance has a limit, even for him. As the story unfolds Nick begins to become very partial in how he presents some of the characters and their actions. While Nick, quickly begins to dispense true pictures of the characters he displays a very soft place in his heart for the man called Gatsby even though he represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn. Nick informs his reader that in spite of Gatsby's downfalls he does not judge Gatsby because he had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness. It becomes quite clear that Nick develops a loyalty for Gatsby, which he does not offer to any
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