The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel shown through Nick Carraway’s eyes. Nick is the narrator of the story who describes his person accounts with people he met throughout his life. Nick, growing up in the Midwest, moves to the East Coast to learn the bond business. He encounters a man named Jay Gatsby, his next door neighbor, who is a main character in the story. Nick and Gatsby spend plenty of time together but how did Nick actually feel about Gatsby? Fitzgerald expresses Nick’s admiring attitude toward Gatsby by the use of imagery and polysyndeton. Nick’s admiring attitude is shown through the use of imagery. Nick is packed and ready to leave but returns to Gatsby’s house one last time. Nick notices Gatsby’s house was vandalized, “On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.” Nick cared about and admired Gatsby. The imagery portrays the feeling of Gatsby by many people but Nick erases the word to show the Nick feels the direct opposite of most people. If Nick had hated Gatsby he would have left the obscene word on the steps but he returns to Gatsby’s house and is willing to show Gatsby respect by taking off the word from Gatsby’s steps. He wipes off the word with his shoe which shows he cares enough for Gatsby to ruin his personal things. Nick admires that Gatsby was willing to do everything in his power to try to get Daisy to love and marry him and that he gave his life trying. Nick believes Gatsby is an honorable man and gives him respect by wiping the steps clean. Fitzgerald expresses Nick’s attitude toward Gatsby by the use of polysyndeton. Nick grew accustomed to Gatsby, “I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the