tyles that he isbeing introduced to. 15"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelledby the inexhaustible variety of life." Nick is being given his first look at a lifestyle thatincluded money, parties, alcohol and higher social behaviour. Nick is enchanted butrepelled at the same time as he believes it is not the lifestyle for him. Nick is repelled bythis lifestyle because of the upbringing he had and the values he possesses. He enjoys thelifestyle but he knows he is better off as a average working class individual. 16"I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and thesatisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to therestless eye. I like to walk up fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowdand imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one wouldever know or disapprove. Sometimes in my mind, I followed them it their apartments onthe corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they fadedthrough a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt ahaunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others-poor young clerks who loitered infront of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner-young clerks inthe dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life." Nick begins to like theenergetic New York lifestyle. One reason for this was the women, of which he hadunpure thoughts of. For the most part though it was the upbeat, fast paced lifestyle, thatlured him into New York. So in closing, Nick the Narrator, was found to be bias in his judgements. In thenovel he makes an exception of judging Gatsby just for the fact that they had the samesort of life experiences. There are also some important factors that make Nick able tomake these judgements believable. The fact that Nick did not just sit back and judge theother characters from afar gains his cred...
