Great Gatsby Ch.1-3

(1) "...my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements.... [making] me the victim of not a few veteran bores" (Pg. 5).

Here the author attempts to show that as Nick was growing up his dad always tried to remind him that he shouldn't judge people because one doesn't know everyone's background story. Nick says that he lives reserving all his judgements of people to a point where he is the victim to various boring people. The only problem with this is that even though the author describes Nick as a non-judgmental man, he actually exposes him as someone who is the utmost hypocrite. When a new character comes in the first thing Nick does is judge every little aspect of them, and since they're a new character you know that he does not know their background stories.
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(2) "... a certain desolate area of land. This is the valley of ashes... where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and... men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air... the solemn dumping ground" (Pg. 27-28).

Here the author points out how hypocritical Nick is by the way he can look down at all the people in the whole valley of ashes. Nick uses a farm metaphor where ash can grow like wheat. He describes the buildings as if they're not even real buildings, but just images made by clouds of smokey ash. He describes these people to be grim and ghoul like, where they even move in an already crumbling manner. He basically describes them as the living dead, just spitting in the face of their dark and disgusting valley that might as well be a large dumping ground. If he  can condescend to a whole portion of society just by their location he proves himself to be quite judgmental.
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(3) "She smiled slowly and walk[ed] through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom" (Pg. 30).

Here the author is trying to show how far some people will go in order to obtain money. The "she" in this quote is Myrtle Wilson. She is a poor woman married to a boring man who is having an affair with Tom. Whenever she sees Tom she gets excited because she knows she is about to have a lot more fun with him than she does with her boring husband and she is about to get to act like she has money, which she desperately wants. That's the reason that she would ignore her husband, walking though him to get to Tom more excitedly.
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(4) "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispers and the champagne and the stars" (Pg. 43).

Here the author is showing how low Nick thinks of those who party all the time. In the visual of this quote Nick is looking from above at the people arriving to Gatsby's party, so Nick is literally and metaphorically looking down upon these people. When he explains that there was music coming from his neighbor's house every night he was saying it in a way that makes him sound like he is annoyed of this music. The way he describes the people is by comparing them to moths attracted by "the light." This is kind of an insult to them because it's just explaining how they are acting like mindless drones just being pulled in to the party scene.
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(5) "I had expected that Mr.Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years" (Pg. 53).

Here the author is trying to show how Nick judged Gatsby just by what he witnessed from next door. Nick didn't give Gatsby a chance in his mind until he actually met him and found him to be a well groomed, attractive man the same age as himself. Nick was surprised after seeing and hearing all these parties to find out that Gatsby had not actually participated or engaged in them at all, he just threw them.
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