List Nick's advantages as mentioned in the first chapter of "The Great Gatsby."

 Nick's father tells him,"a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth." Some of Nick's "unequal" advantages  are:

1. Family background: "My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations."

2. Education: Both his father and he graduated from  one of the most prestigious universities in America-Yale University in New Haven.

3. Financial freedom: Since his father looks after the lucrative family wholesale hardware business Nick is free "to go east and learn the bond business."

4. Luxurious and independent lifestyle: Nick has the money to rent an entire house for himself after his co-tenant is transferred to Washington. A Finnish housekeeper looks after the house and does the cooking. He has his own car and he buys up many books about the "bond business" but is in no hurry to learn the business.

All these "advantages" which his father keeps reminding him of frequently, have made Nick to be tolerant of others' shortcomings and more importantly a sympathetic and non-judgemental listener. It is this second quality which attracts Gatsby to Nick and persuades him to reveal the truth about his antecedents and shady past in Ch.6: "James Gatz-that was really or at least legally his name............the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man. He told me all this very much later."