Agree with you, sis.

 

I just finished Chapter 2. I like Nick too, especially I was very impressed  by the way he handled  Gat*****y’s funeral and the way he treated Gat*****y’s father in the later chapters of the book.

Agree with you that the author should just tell the story and leave the judgment to the readers. Everyone has/his own Hamlet; for the same reason, everyone has his/own Gat*****y or Ethan Frome. Lu Xun (鲁迅）wrote great essays, but he is not a good novelist, because he could not help judging and criticizing the characters in his novels (like 阿Q正传，孔已己 et al.) 

Introducing a guest to the apartment -> Introducing a guest (who just came to) the apartment

He was offended at her keeping -> He was offended by her keeping 

Need to take my son to the piano lesson now. Laters, sis.