Beginning of Essay
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retracted back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess that they had made . . ." In th ....

Middle of Essay
.... with which to withstand and pass judgement on an amoral world, such as the one of East Egg which he had observed the previous summer. He says that as a result of such an upbringing he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" about other people, but he then goes on to say "tolerance has a limit". With Gatsby, Nick admits he makes an exception of judging. He is prepared to suspend both the moral code of his upbringing and the limit of his intolerance, because of Gatsby's "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness". This is an exception that he will make for Gatsby and not anyone else in the novel. Nick overlooks Gatsbys bootlegging, and his ass ....