Gatsby First Kiss Quotes

The 1920's was a time filled with rich and wild parties thrown by corrupt people who were trying to achieve the American Dream. People wanted an ideal life filled with wealth and love. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the wishes of love and corruption that follows the American Dream and Gatsby. Using imagery, similes, and the setting, Fitzgerald establishes a dreamy and nostalgic mood. He shows how the elements being presented throughout the passage can change the way a scene in the novel is interpreted by the reader. In the novel, Fitzgerald creates a dreamy and nostalgic mood in the scene where Gatsby and Daisy will share their first kiss by using examples of imagery. He creates this mood when he writes, “The

To show this, Fitzgerald writes, “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God,” (ll. 14-16). The comparison between Gatsby's mind and the mind of God is used to show how once he kisses Daisy, he will never change his mind towards her, just how the mind of God can not be easily influenced. It's used to show that his motives towards Daisy won't change and he won't use her after accomplishing this dream/vision he has of kissing her. At the end of the passage, Fitzgerald writes, “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete,” (ll. 18-19). This simile that compares Daisy to a flower is used to show how the moment that Gatsby and Daisy kiss, she makes him become fully attracted to her as she shows off her most beautiful self towards Gatsby, like a blooming flower. This was an important past moment for Daisy and Gatsby, but mostly for Gatsby, since he is wanting to remember this nostalgic and dreamy moment once more. The kiss they shared made the incarnation complete which goes to show that the kiss made sure Gatsby could never change his mind on her, which was what he had dreamed for. To conclude, Fitzgerald uses similes in the passage in order to create the dreamy kiss that occurred in the past memory that belongs to

Gatsby is remembering this memory of his in a dreamlike sense, and in order to convey that, Fitzgerald writes, “One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling…” (ll. 1-2). The use of describing the time and season Gatsby and Daisy are experiencing in this past moment makes for a dreamy mood. The autumn night makes a sense of a dream taking place and the leaves falling makes it a perfect setting that Gatsby continues to remember and feel nostalgic about, since he wants to go back to this time when he was the only person Daisy loved. In order to continue this mood, Fitzgerald also writes, “...they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight,” (ll. 2-3). The place they are walking through has a dreamlike feel to it due to the moonlight shining on the sidewalk they were walking on. Gatsby also brings a nostalgic mood to this setting as it's his past memory and this is the way he chooses to remember it, as a sweet and dreamlike moment. Fitzgerald makes use of this past memory to set the dreamy and nostalgic mood for Daisy and Gatsby's first