Gatsby chap 4

Jordan’s story paints Gatsby as a lovesick, innocent young soldier, desperately trying to win the woman of his dreams. Now that Gatsby is a full-fledged character in the novel, the bizarre inner conflict that enables Nick to feel such contradicting like and dislike for him becomes fully apparent—whereas Gatsby the lovesick soldier is an attractive figure, representative of hope and authenticity, Gatsby the crooked businessman, representative of greed and corruption, is not. This scenario of Nick contemplating his true feelings for Gatsby may be representative of the fight between good and evil as he realizes his true personality.