Question

What is gatsby's view of the past? when nick says that gatsby "wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving daisy, "what do you think he means?

Answer 1

Gatsby wants evrything he has idealized since he and Daisy last parted. He wants the past to disappear...... no Tom, no money, no nothing....... just the two of them the way he thought it would be.