In the eighth chapter of the novel Gatsby is in his swimming pool waiting for a phone call from Daisy. This is a symbolic moment in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald shows Gatsby cleansed of his greed for wealth. Also in the eighth chapter of the novel, Nick tells Gatsby, “They are a foul crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You're worth that whole damn group put together. I was always happy I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid him,” (Fitzgerald 164). This line shows how Nick's feelings for Gatsby are starting to change because he notices that Gatsby himself is changing into a better person. Nick describes Gatsby's reaction by saying, "First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant, sympathetic smile, as if we had been in ecstatic cahoots over this fact the whole time." (Fitzgerald 164) Fitzgerald shows in these few lines that Gatsby has indeed reached his epiphanic moment in the novel. Gatsby no longer thinks highly of the rich and realizes that getting all that wealth out of greed wasn't worth it at the time.