What Is Nick's Attitude Toward Gatsby

At the
beginning of the chapter,expresses his concern and care for .
He noticed that the parties had ended and those who visited, stayed briefly in his driveway and
left. He then went over to enquire:

"Wondering if he
were sick I went over to find out."

Later in the
day, whenquestions Jay about his being at Oxford, Nick expresses his
admiration for the manner in which he manages Tom's cynical inquisition. Nick
mentions that the verbal altercation renewed his faith in Gatsby.
He trusted that Gatsby could manage whatever negative idea Tom wished to create of
him.

"I wanted to get up and slap him on the back. I
had one of those renewals of complete faith in him that Id experienced before."

Nick further expresses admiration for Jay's initial
calm demeanour during his verbal altercation with Tom. Tom obviously loses
control, whilst Jay remains polite and is "content". Even when Tom hurls accusations
of criminal activity at Jay, he remains calm.

Nick later
expresses pity for Jay when he sees how he reacts to  telling him
that she "loved him too" and further that, "you want too much!" Jay is
clearly hurt and confused. Even so, he remains calm.

Tom's relentless pursuit
does affect Jay eventually and Nick notices that he looked:

'as if he had killed a man.'

Nick's
thoughts make it clear that he feels sorry for Jay when he attempts
to explain all Tom's accusations to Daisy, denying everything. Nick states that:

"But with every word she was drawing further and further into
herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon
slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily,
undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."

At the end of the chapter, after the accident which killed Myrtle,
Nick finds Jay outside the Buchanan home, "just standing there". Nick finds this
despicable. When jay tells him that they had parked his car in his garage and that nobody had
seen them, Nick's thinking is:

"I
disliked him so much by this time that I didnt find it necessary to
tell him he was wrong."

He is, at this
point disgusted by Gatsby and what he had done. Nick however,
remains loyal to his friend, going so far as to establish what Tom
and Daisy were up to and reporting back to Jay. He recommends that Jay leave and go to bed, but
he insists on staying. Nick then leaves.