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From Nick's feelings, we can work out that he is in awe of Gatsby and he is treated by Gatsby in such a way that he uses words in his description in a lexical field of faith (believe, for example) which connote this idea of Gatsby not being too dissimilar from a deity, perhaps?

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Upon finding out who Gatsby is, Nick looks at Gatsby with an admiration, saying of his voice that

"It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as would like to believe in yourself..."

The use of repetition (e.g. understood) emphasises the significance of Nick's feelings about Gatsby's manner; Gatsby is the first to speak to him with such mannerisms.

However Nick remains fraught with scepticism at the fact that Gatsby addresses him in such a way:

"strong impression that he was picking his words with care"

The choice of the keyword 'strong' is Nick reestablishing this uncompromising morality that he tried to create of himself in the opening of the first chapter, showing that, despite Gatsby eventually being

"exempt from [his moral attitude],"

Nick shows that he has an underlying cynicism of Gatsby's character.

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The Great Gatsby could be seen as a modern take on Shakespeare's tragic template; just as Hamlet is a member of the Danish royal family, Gatsby is also a member of a kind of royalty, one that draws its power from wealth and social fame.

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Fitzgerald lived a fairly wild life like the lives led by the people in the novel.  He threw and attended parties similar to the ones that Gatsby threw.  He lived the same sort of empty life.  This led him to alcoholism and eventually to financial ruin.

Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was in the army in the South.

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Gatsby doesn't make much of an effort to invite people, yet seems to know that many will turn up. We as readers can infer this because of the excess that he has included in the parties. Also by the man in the library who wasn't invited, but was through a drunken meeting with a stranger.
Does Gatsby have any real friends? Does he even want them? Or is he perhaps it is all a presentation for Daisy.

Although, it is not completely abnormal to believe that perhaps Gatsby did his homework on Nick and that he knew he had connections to Daisy and that he possibly USED Nick for his connections. Gatsby leaves no room for a social life in his rota. He most probably didn't even want Nick as a friend but used him anyways.

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“I’m afraid I’m not a very good host”

Gatsby has a lack of confidence? Also shows that in roaring 20's many parties that people went to did not know the host.

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His previous rota as shown in the last remaining chapters (can't remember what one it is) left no time for him to do any real physical work. Because of this, he is left with large amounts of servants as seen in the first few paragraphs of Chapter 3.

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The life of the flapper and social extravagance of Daisy and Jordan can be seen in Zelda.
At the same time, the lack of positive resolution that is present in the novel is also present in Fitzgerald's own life.  When the parties ended, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan move to the next party, Gatsby dies, and Nick moves back to the Midwest.   In much the same way, once the 1920s ended, Fitzgerald and Zelda attempt to find some level of solace and comfort in the new America and are not entirely successful.

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He doesn’t want any trouble with anybody.”
“Who doesn’t?” I inquired.
“Gatsby. Somebody told me ——”
“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” (this is repeated three times)
“I don’t think it’s so much that,” argued Lucille sceptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.”
“it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.”
I’ll bet he killed a man.”
“Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man.”
“I think he killed a man,”

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Nick considers him to have a polite formality

"excused himself with a small bow that included each of us in turn"
"he said, politely" - the first words that Gatsby says to Nick

The way that Nick chooses to introduce Gatsby and show him leaving the scene highlight the regard with which Nick holds him in

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"He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life"