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I agree with this statement as in the book, Nick states that he is a reliable and nonjudgmental person however, later on in the book, we can see that he is very judgmental in terms of describing people and other details in the story. I think that we cannot really blame him for this as this story written in first person and there will be some bias from the character’s perspective. In the first chapter, page 14, “She was extended to her full length, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.”. In this quote, Nick was describing Jordan Baker and examining from the language he used to describe her, it seems very judgmental especially in the part when he said

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