In The Great Gatsby, what does Nick think of Gatsby in his final analysis?

Reflecting on
, his ambitions and his realities, with the advantage of two years hindsight,comes to the
conclusion that Gatsby was a hopeless dreamer, basically a good man caught up in circumstances
beyond his control. His dreams for the future, for the perfect life with the perfect , ignored
the reality of the corruption of the East and Daisy's shallowness. Because Gatsby was able to
simply block out factors that might complicate reaching the goals he set for himself, he never
had to concede that those goals were unreachable. Nick could not adopt the same attitude toward
life for himself, but he came to understand that it was the only way Gatsby could carry on with
his life.

his dream must have seemed so close that he
could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in
that vast obscurity beyond the city