Nick's Power In The Great Gatsby

In chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the change of Nick’s emotions. During the early 1920s a new dawn buds out with Nick, and Tom traveling to New York. On their way they stop to visit Tom’s lover Myrtle Wilson at the Valley of Ashes. Myrtle Wilson invites Tom, Nick, the Mckee family, and her sister Catherine to her apartment for a party in New York. During the end of the party Nick expresses a variety of emotions, as he is “enchanted” and “repelled” by the arguments, and the careless gibberish of the drunken souls . Nick is enchanted by the amount of secrecy humans can disclose to a “casual watcher” when they are careless. He is “repelled” by the arguments and the derogatory comments Myrtle, and Tom makes about other people as they start to drink more.
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simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” Nick is “enchanted” by the amount of secrecy humans can reveal to a “casual watcher.” Furthermore, he illustrates “line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too,” he is again “enchanted” by how humans let strangers into their confidential room full of secrets, when being careless and vulnerable. “Line of yellow windows” contributes to the line of caution, a place where only the trusted can get in. This is true in my opinion because when people are hurt or careless, they let their emotions take over them and reveal their secrets. As Myrtle and Tom start drink more they start making more arguments, derogatory comments, and start to order people. Which signifies that when people are being careless, they tend to let people look into the windows which are normally restricted by the “yellow