sk to much of her. You can’t repeat the past” (Fitzgerald 116), to which Gatsby replies, “Why of course you can!” (Fitzgerald 116). It is obvious that “Gatsby endows her with a meaning that she could in no way embody” (Lehan, “The Road to West Egg” 31). “In spite of the bright gleam of wealth and bored sophistication of her careless life – Daisy is seen as what she is, ‘foul dust that floated in the wake of Gatsby’s dream’” (Miller 103). “She vanished into her rich house, into her rich full like, leaving Gatsby – nothing” (Fitzgerald 157). The careless attitude and false identity that consumes Daisy, also embodies Jay Gatsby himself.No outward appearances can be quite as deceptive as that of Jay Gatsby himself, For “Gatsby is some what vague, his outlines are dim, the reader can’t focus upon him” (Perkins 5). This can be said due to the many misconceptions one discovers about Gatsby. James E. Miller, Jr. also confirms of Kaiser Wilheim, that he killed a man once, that he is a German spy…” (98). “The suspense created by these wild stories eventually gives way to Gatsby’s enormously vital illusion” (Miller 98); the illusion of obtaining Daisy Buchanan’s love. This love for Daisy played an essential role in Gatsby’s inventing himself. The narrator of the novel cites:The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was the Son of God - - a phrase that, if it means anything, means just that - - and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty(Fitzgerald 104).The novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, gives the reader this description on Gatsby shortly after Gatsby reveals the truth behind all the myths associated with himself. Nick also notes that Jay Gatsby&#...
