Does Nick's attitude toward Gatsby change in chapters 5 and 6? Do you think that Nick is irritated in a way and feels sorry for ever setting foot upon...

I don't
believe thatis sorry he ever set foot on 's lawn. After all, as he says at the beginning of the
novel, Gatsby is the only person who redeems the other "foul dust" of that time in his
life. In , however, hearing thatwill relay a request to him from Gatsby, Nick thinks,

I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for
a moment I was sorry Id ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.

Nick does, nevertheless, go through with the request, which is for a meeting withat his
house, so that Gatsby can then take her next door and show her his mansion.

Nick does have moments of irritation with Gatsby in these two chapters. When Gatsby
follows Nick into his kitchen shortly after the reunion with Daisy and says it was all a
terrible mistake, Nick lectures him:

"Youre acting
like a little boy," I broke out impatiently. "Not only that but youre rude. Daisys
sitting in there all alone."

In , as Gatsby
complains to Nick that Daisy hates his giant parties, one of which she has finally attended with
, Nick knows this is true but lies to him (this is the man who claims that honesty is his
cardinal virtue!) and reassures him she does. Nick then says,

"I wouldnt ask too much of her," I ventured. "You cant repeat the
past."

This leads to Gatsby's famous declaration
which gets at both the heart of his motivations and theof the novel:

"Cant repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why
of course you can!"

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were
lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his
hand.

"Im going to fix everything just the way it was before," he
said, nodding determinedly. "Shell see."

He talked a lot about the
past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had
gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could
once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that
thing was€¦.

Nick becomes exasperated at times with
Gatsby's vulnerability and self-delusion regarding Daisy, a person he can see through more
clearly and who he understands more cynically than Gatsby does. Nick's attitude changes as he
gets to know Gatsby better, making Gatsby less a man of mystery to him, but Nick, nevertheless,
remains sympathetic to him.