“Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. As if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away (by comparing Gatsby to a machine it shows the complexity and uniqueness of Gatsby.). This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”- It was an extraordinary gift for hope (the main point about Gatsby that made everybody love him.), a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No-Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams (this dream would be the American dream) that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. (Nick explains here that it was not Gatsby that was the bad one but rather than the men that took advantage of him and dreams.)”
At the beginning of this passage Nick say that Gatsby was everything he had disliked in a person everything that he had “scorned” in someone. Then he goes on to say that “…there was something gorgeous about him…” that people could not seem to resist. To show how intriguing Gatsby really is Nick compares him to a seismograph which was new and complex at the. Nick does this to really impact the reader’s first impression of Jay Gatsby. However, Nick explains that it is not Gatsby’s extreme charm but his “…extraordinary gift for hope…” this is what made Gatsby, well Gatsby. This is what made people like Gatsby, what made him likeable. Then Nick went on to say that Jay Gatsby “…turned out alright in the end…” which led to him to say that it was not Gatsby the “…closed out…” his interest; but rather it was what “…preyed on Gatsby, what foul floated in the wake of his dreams…”. This means that Nick actually cared about Gatsby he just didn’t like his dream. The dream that “preyed” on Gatsby was his ambition for the American dream. It was also the people who took advantage of his dream, Nick states, that ultimately led to Gatsby’s demise.
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