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“Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life.You fell in love or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity”. Henry Bromel an American writer believes that a relationship is not always what one thinks it is until a step is taken back, and it may just be childish vanity. Through Gatsby's actions and deceptions, Fitzgerald illustrates his argument that a relationship may not be what it was until taking a step back.
Gatsby is so extremely focused on getting Daisy, that he let his childish desires get the best of him. Ever since Daisy came into his life, he let his dream to be with her take over his life…show more content… Everyone except Gatsby knows and or accepts that Daisy and Gatsby are not going to be together. Nick and Jordan are talking about Daisy and Gatsby and Jordan thinks Gatsby “half expected [Daisy] to wander into one of his parties some night, [...] but she never did” (Fitzgerald 179) . This is the reason for all of Gatsby’s parties: to get Daisy to his house. He was unsuccessful and he didn’t stop there he kept going. He had a dream and he would do anything to get it. Later, Nick is thinking about the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock and how Gatsby would reach out to it and how “his dreams must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him [...]” (Fitzgerald 180). He was so close, yet so far that it was already gone. When something he did didn’t work he would go to the next thing and the next and so on. He thought he was so close to getting her, but what he didn't realize is that it was already behind him. He refused to move on with life and couldn’t accept the reality. Nick was thinking to himself while at work and had “an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald 161). Part of Gatsby had to have realized by now Daisy wasn’t going to call, but at this point, he had spent so much time dreaming of Daisy, he probably didn’t care anymore. He spent years trying to get Daisy and got nowhere. Part of him knew the truth and the other part of him thought there was still
