"unaffected scorn" - genuine or unchangeable?
"Gatsby /.../ represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn".

Does "unaffected" mean "genuine" or "unchangeable", eternal scorn?

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"unaffected scorn" - genuine or unchangeable?
"Gatsby /.../ represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn".

Does "unaffected" mean "genuine" or "unchangeable", eternal scorn?

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Unaffected = honest.  It is genuine scorn.

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It can be both simultaneously.  The man had genuine hate for Gatsby, and that hate could be eternal.