Blog 8- Reflection of a quote

    In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick are all assembled in Gatsby's music room listening to Mr. Klipspringer play the piano. As the night carries on, I was excited to see Gatsby and Daisy slowly warm back up to each other and share in an evening they've been waiting for for over five years. There was a quote which I think describes perfectly the wind of change that I feel is blowing through Gatsby and Daisy's life as they bring each other back into focus. "It was the hour of a profound human change, and exitement was generating in the air," (Fitzgerald,95). Slowly, Gasby and Daisy are letting one another back into their lives and they are anxiousness of what is to come. However, as with any realtionship, when such time has passed, and there has been time to build up expectations, disappointment can arise if they are not met. I'm not saying Gatsby was at all disappointed with the way Daisy has grown up, but after five years, one does not know what to expect. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of hs dreams--not through her own fault, but because of then collosal vitality of his illusions...No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart," (Fitzgerald,95-96). Sometimes, one envisions someone in the mind and makes them perfection and everything one wants, but not always in touch with reality. This is a set up for disappointment when one isn't completely the desired and dreamt up one. Daisy Fay is still loved by Gatsby but there is a twinkle of doubt, as Nick says, in his eye.