However, Nick hated Gatsby because he believes by acquiring his huge wealth he only wants to impress Daisy, to win her back. She is a shallow, society driven women and by trying to win her with material objects he is helping to continue a culture that regards money and status above love and bliss. .
Nick acquaints us with his story, after his time East, which has given him time to analyze each detail and event, and see how it affected him. However, we are not given any indication that Nick particularly understood his "visit" to the East. It seems his stay East has made him predominantly disillusioned about people and their actions. Nick has been left mentally sick of the activities and the time passed has left him to desire a "moral attention" within society. Furthermore, in the novel his repulsion is evident when he and witnesses Tom Buchanan break Myrtle's nose. Although at this point of the violent event, Nick is quite drunk, he still clearly remembers every detail. This foreshadows Tom's violent and considerably rude personality, which is seen right through the narrative. For example, when Gatsby and him argue, Tom becomes noticeably ill mannered, especially when he remarks that he would not accept "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to my [Daisy] wife." Although he apparently knows about the affair, we are left to wonder why Tom did not confront Gatsby or Daisy on the matter. It seems strange that man of such high class would let something like this happen. Perhaps he believes that since he had an affair with Myrtle, Daisy's liaisons with Gatsby would cancel it out his own sins. This gives us a suggestion of the lowliness in Tom's character, which was seen in his "brute" of an opening scene. A quote taken from "Twentieth Century American Literature" by W. French explains the immorality of the time "The Great Gatsby is . a brilliant dramatization of the social and economic corruptions of the jazz age, marked by Prohibition, gangsterism .