“Everyone suspects at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known” ( Fitzgerald 64). Ultimately, Carraway's point of view lends heroism to Gatsby's pitiful life. "They're a rotten crowd," Carraway tells Gatsby, a romantic fool whose simple belief in Midwestern love is corrupted by the Eastern obsession with vain wealth in which people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan escape their responsibilities. “You’re worth this whole damn group put together.” Always torn in his assessments, Carraway says: “I was always glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid [Gatsby], because I disapproved of him from start to finish” (Fitzgerald