My favorite line in this chapter is the one about the city (New York City), described by Nick, as viewed from the Queensboro Bridge, which is,
...always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world" (73).
This description makes New York a dual symbol, first of the New World, which had all that "mystery and beauty" for those who came here, and second for the way Gatsby sees Daisy, who has the same "mystery and beauty." Notice also that New York is always being seen "for the first time," as immigrants see the New World and as Gatsby sees Daisy.
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