'as my father snobbishly suggested and i snobbishly repeat, a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.' pg7
Nick mirrors snobbery of Lindner (ARITS)
Syntactic parallelism - generational attitude of snobbery + irony in critical self-awareness of elitism
Juxtaposition of phrase 'fundamental... unequally' = inequality
Metaphoric 'parcelled out' suggests morals are finite
Underlies the novels theme of class behaviours + elitism in the dislike of transgression