it’s very important to me that when people ship Nick and gatsby they don’t ignore gatsby’s love for daisy
Nick is, according to most interpretations, gay. At the end of chapter two it’s heavily implied that he sleeps with Mr McKee. His descriptions of men are much more detailed and loving than his descriptions of women, including that of Jordan. He loves talking about gatsby and that smile.
But gatsby doesn’t seem to perceive Nick in the same way. Gatsby is love with daisy, an unattainable metaphor for the American dream. She’s superficial and even in the kindest interpretation of her character, scared enough of facing consequences that she letsgatsby die for her. Gatsby doesn’t care, he loves her regardless. She’s beautiful and cruel and married and will never actually run away with him but he doesn’t care.
If you ship Nick and gatsby, I think it’s important that this unattainability of daisy is the attraction that gatsby builds his relationship with her on. Nick is the opposite. He’s socially awkward and yes, initially a means to an end, that genuinely loves gatsby (romantically or platonically)
The ship is great and I think it’s kind of book accurate (Nick loves gatsby fs), but it’s important that shipping the characters doesn’t erase the messaging of the book, that being the unattainability of daisy and the American dream
