It’s a fact that Scott based Nick heavily on himself- from references to his Scott’s school days being in nicks past, to the few appearances based things we get to just general personality and humor
Nick is meant to be Scott, his queerness is so overt because Scott isn’t socially aware enough to see how truly gay he is- even when Scott was disappearing with men at parties or glueing himself to male friends he was in denial about his queerness
Nicks problematic opinions were Scotts, nicks view of the world was Scott’s
Scott’s blind admiration of the men around him is present in Nick.
Now Scott being so socially inept is why he didn’t add more elements of himself to Nick
Scott didn’t know he was annoying, Scott didn’t know he talked too much and loudly, Scott didn’t know he was chaotic, Scott didn’t consider himself a “messy” person. He could be introspective every now and then but often a lot of the things criticized in Gatsby are things he himself did
It’s and interesting dilemma- Scott’s very opinionated but still does the things he condemns other for
But either way, rant over- also no Nick isn’t intended to be an unreliable narrator, you think the guy who was voted in college to be “thinks he’s the wittiest” would write about his self insert being unreliable- possibly- lowkey Scott’s very confusing bro could literally be doing that
