In this chapter the first character we meet, Nick Carraway, who is the narrator of the novel. The chapter starts out with a lesson from his father about not criticizing anyone because they do not have the opportunities that he would have. Most likely, in my opinion, the single most important quote I have seen in the novel as of now. We find later on that Nick had decided to go into the bond business and situates himself in a house right next to the famous Gatsby himself who at the start of the novel praises him. "Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Tom Buchanan
"Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven- a notional figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax."
In the first chapter, Tom Buchanan seems like a very negative man. Countless times they describe as a very cold character. "Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
This quote really hit me because it felt like something my own father would tell me. Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to have certain things such as a phone or mp3 products. We do not stop and consider that there are those that are freezing in the cold with an empty stomach. If they had half of the things we have today they would consider it a gift from God. To us, it's just another thing we had to have.
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