tsby does doubt that this will work but he still attempts to "fix everything just the way it was before". Gatsby has done all this because of romance. The great driving force that drove him to those foolish obsessions is loneliness. There is something lacking in his house. With Daisy in it with Gatsby, it is complete. Gatsby is also living in the past. He wants everything to be the way it used to be before. Nick says "some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then." It’s his love for Daisy which is ineffable that drives him into doing stupid things like crime and being someone that he is not. In conclusion, we can see how "In literature as in life, romance can be both a great driving force and a foolish obsession". Gatsby does all these crazy things to win Daisy’s love back. But yet in the end, he doesn’t get anything. Rather than dwell in the past, if Gatsby moved on, he would not have had such tragic ...
