Answer:
Financial wealth is desirable to the narrator.
Explanation:
Consoling proximity means that the narrator finds comfort in the fact millionares are so close. The fact that they consider East Egg "Fashionable" also indicates that financial wealth is a positive.
The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.
For Blake the symbolic opposite of the tiger is the lamb.