“Everyone suspects that he possesses 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 brings heroism to Gatsby's pitiful life. “They're a rotten crowd,” Carraway tells Gatsby, a mad romantic whose simple faith in Midwestern love is corrupted by the Eastern obsession with vacuous wealth in which people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan escape responsibility. "You're worth the whole damn group put together." Always conflicted in his assessments, Carraway says: “I've always been happy I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid [to Gatsby], because I disapproved of him from beginning to end” (Fitzgerald