What is Nick's attitude towards Gatsby in the final passage of the book?

In the final
passage,returns to the deep admiration he expressed forin the opening pages of the novel. At
novel's end, he has just metin the city, and while he finds himself unable to forgive Tom for
all that has happened, he recognizes, with some contempt, that Tom feels "entirely
justified" in how he has behaved. What then follows is Nick's famous statement
characterizing Tom andas spoiled children:

Careless people
. . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money . .
.

In contrast to this "foul dust," as Nick
characterized it at the beginning of the book, Gatsby stands as a tragic hero, pursuing a dream
impossible to realize with grandeur, pathos, and grace.

In the novel's last
two short paragraphs, Nick affirms Gatsby as a dreamer and believerbeginning with the
third-person singular statement "Gatsby believed." Interestingly, though, he
immediately switches to using the first person plural: "us" and "we." Gatsby
becomes the symbol of all who dream, all who yearn to reconstruct an idealized past, no matter
how hopeless the task:

It eluded us then, but no
matterto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . And one find
morning

So we beat on . . .

Gatsby
becomes hope writ universal: he encompasses Nick and the readers and the American Dream too, all
that persists and yearns and loves and works despite a cynical reality and a past that can never
return. Nick finds in Gatsby the doomed but larger-than-life spirit in all of us who still
retain some innocence and idealism.