Describe the ambiguity in Nick's initial descriptions of Gatsby in The Great Gatsby.

Ambiguity means unclarity. Nick opens this story preparing
the reader for a flashback.

His first words about Gatsby
are these:

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Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this
book, was exempt from my reaction - Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have
an unaffected scorn.

Just
prior to these words, Nick told the audience about this unaffected scorn. He was mad at
what he had experienced in humanity. He comments that he longed for a "sort of moral
attention forever" and that he did not want to adventure any further into the dramatic
unfoldings of the depths of human hearts. Obviously Nick had some bad experiences which
made him question the morality of humanity. He had unaffected scorn for this attitude
and lifestyle. To me, that says that he is repulsed by the
immoral.

What seems strange here is that he holds Gatsby as
exempt, meaning Gatsby did not receive Nick judgment or scorn.
However, in the same sentence he says that Gatsby represented all of it. All of the
immorality and dramatic toil in the human heart was embodied greatly in this man,
Gatsby. So the ambiguity comes with why Nick would not hold Gatsby with great scorn if
Gatsby did everything that Nick hated.