Read the following excerpt from the last chapter of The Great Gatsby.

Even when the East excited me most, even when I was

most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored,

sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their

interminable inquisitions which spared only the children

and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality

of distortion.

Which statement most accurately analyzes the aesthetic impact of the

excerpt?