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?