Gatsby Love Quotes

Gatsby is aware that Daisy may no longer be in love with him, but he still wants to keep trying to impress Daisy to one day impress her and make her part of his

Gatsby was a very optimistic character. He never gave up on his dreams for his relationship with Daisy. As Gatsby states “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!’ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking around him here

We see that Gatsby is very close to realizing his desire of being with Daisy is getting closer, but the foreshadowing suggests that his dream might not come true. Even before Daisy arrives, Gatsby is in a frenzy. When she arrives Gatsby and Nick talk in the kitchen because Gatsby is so uneasy, he says “This is a terrible mistake, a terrible, terrible mistake. ”(Fitzgerald 68). In this scene, Gatsby reveals his genuine self.

Gatsby tries to rekindle his and Daisy’s old relationship by trying to relive the past while Tom is out having an affair. Nick is a people watcher, he observes anyone and everyone and gets to know them before he feels inclined to make a judgment. To start, Nick reserves judgment in multiple situations but the first example is when he meets Gatsby and is at his party. Nick was the only person invited but at the party, he heard rumors about Gatsby

This quote is Nick describing how he thought Gatsby was thinking about the parties and why Gatsby wanted to get to know himself, Nick. Gatsby has tried many things to get over Daisy and stop obsessing over her, but everytime he realizes everything he does is for her, and he still loves Her. “I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” (Fitzgerald 140)

Gatsby was unaware of what he was going through and unconsciously doing a foolish thing. "Repetition compulsion is an inherent, primordial tendency in the unconscious that impels the individuals to repeat certain actions, in particular, the most painful or destructive ones... Repetition compulsion is thus initially a defensive, an attempt to bind, assimilate, and integrate undesirable experiences that are incompatible with other experiences". Gatsby does not know that he is throwing his time away for a woman that has moved on. Gatsby is trying to bind or assimilate the present Daisy Fay with the past Daisy to fill in the hole he has in his heart.

Gatsby has loved Daisy for a long time but did not meet her “money requirements'' and she later married Tom. Now that they’ve been married he wants to gain this love back from Daisy and is doing different things to

What Nick is saying here is that all the talk about who Gatsby is and what he does is only making him more eager and curious to find out the truth. Gatsby is curious about Daisy. He wants to know all about her and have her for himself. Daisy is curious about Gatsby after the war because he never comes back. Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, starts to notice feelings between Gatsby and Daisy, which causes him to become curious of Gatsby’s intentions with his wife.

Gatsby couldn't even talk to her without Nick’s presence. He needed Nick to be there and when Gatsby wanted to back out he needed the support of Nick to keep him there. For what he worked so hard for I don't understand why he keeps trying to run away like child. Nick had no “idea what “this matter” was, but [Nick] was more annoyed than interested. [Nick] hadn’t asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss [Gatsby]... and for a moment [Nick] was sorry [he’d] ever set foot upon [Gatsby’s] overpopulated lawn.

There wasn’t anything that anyone could say or do that would make Gatsby come down to reality about the truth of the matter; Daisy didn’t love him that way anymore. After the book's tragic plot twist, Nick sat down and thought about Gatsby and all of the things he had done but most importantly, his unending hope. “And as I sat

Gatsby had a past with Daisy. Gatsby tries to recover his love for Daisy so she can leave Tom Buchanan. "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book" (pg.6) "or rather, as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name." (pg.9) "he talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy." (pg.117) "your wife doesn't love you, said Gatsby quietly."

One of Gatsby's biggest flaws is his desire to get with Daisy and recreate history. His love for Daisy makes him willing to do anything to get her back. He says "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she would go to Tom and say: I never loved you "(chapter 7). This shows us that Gatsby

Nick says, “I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as thought a faint of doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness” (95). This shows that even though Gatsby has Daisy, he does not feel like his current happiness is enough and he is not satisfied with it. Gatsby thinks Daisy could be perfect for him but his fantasy of Daisy that he has created is much more important to him. Nick goes into more details about Gatsby’s idea of Daisy and says, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (95). Nick is saying that Gatsby has this impossible imagination of Daisy that even she can not live up to his standards.

Gatsby disregards everything about Daisy, her needs, her desires, her thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. He believes that she should think, feel, believe, want, and need everything the way he does and finds fault with her when she fails to meet this expectation. Gatsby also fails to comprehend that he has changed as well over the past four years. He obstinately believes that he can go back to the young man he was and change the course of his life. Even when the narrator gently nudges Gatsby to let go of his unrealistic expectations, advising him, “You can’t repeat the past,” Gatsby was astonished that the narrator would say such a thing.

“He talked about the past and i gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could one return, to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was” (Fitzgerald 109-10) Nick said about Gatsby. Gatsby wanted to recover what happened to Daisy and the love they had. Daisy still had hope even though she felt like there was barely any to still reach out and grasp for. Gatsby just wanted his lover with Daisy to be as ideal and passionate as it was before he left for the