The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe" (Fitzgerald, 73). This is one of the first thoughts of the narrator as this section opens up. I felt this quote may in a way foreshadow another event not necessarily that effects fifty million people, but an occurrence in which one man puts another man's fate in his hands.
Now Jordan tells the story, which is drawn out might I add, of Gatsby's love for Daisy. Gatsby now looks as a man helplessly still in love with a now married woman. He is just trying to win over the girl of his dreams. Well though people say it is never too late for love, when the person you love is married it is too late. However, Nick being a people pleaser decides to invite Daisy over, as Gatsby wishes. Gatsby is not the man he was then, but he has to of imagined this meeting, considering he moved directly across the bay. (It is a little obsessive if you ask me, but I guess it could be romantic.) However, Gatsby is extremely nervous to meet Daisy for the first time in several years.
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