In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, how does Nick perceive Gatsby's attitude about money?

F. Scott Fitgerald's The Great Gatsby
is narrated by Nick Carraway; it is through his eyes that we see and know the other
characters, including Jay Gatsby. Nick's understanding about Gatsby and his money is
different at the end of the novel than it is in the beginning; as he comes to know
Gatsby, Nick understands how Gatsby really feels about (and uses)
money.

Nick lives in a little house (that is actually too
grand a term) dwarfed by his neighbor's glistening mansion. Gatsby throws lavish parties
and spends his money quite extravagantly. When the two men finally meet, Gatsby takes
great pains to try to impress Nick with his past and his
wealth.

I
lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe--Paris, Venice, Rome--collecting
jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself
only....

Nick should have
known there is more to the outrageous story, because Gatsby adds
this:

...and
trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long
ago.

When he wants to ask
Nick a simple favor, Gatsby does not have the social skills to just ask, so he offers
Nick an opportunity to make more money--the only thing he has to offer anyone but Daisy,
it seems. Nick is appalled at the idea and neither of them mentions it
again. 

Later Nick learns that Gatsby was unable to marry
the woman he loved, Daisy, because he was not rich enough to suit her parents. He
dedicated his life to making money and throwing elaborate parties because he hoped Daisy
would one day attend one of them. She has not, so now he asks Nick to invite Daisy (his
"careless"cousin) for tea. Nick says:

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The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited
five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths--so that he
could come over some afternoon to a stranger's
garden.

Nick claims a
personal disdain for money from the beginning (though he is a stockbroker whose aim it
is, presumably, to make a lot of it), and he does not admire Gatsby at first because he
seems to be so ostentatious with his. As he learns why money is important to Gatsby and
why he throws such lavish parties, Nick understands Gatsby's hunger for
money.