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Summary Of Chapter 6 Of The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby sheds light onto the way that people can be blinded by a fantasy, live in the past, and can be a part of the lost generation. Near the end of chapter six in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald includes the delusional thoughts by Gatsby to show how he was blinded by his love that was present in the past. Gatsby chooses to deny that there is a very small chance of him ever rekindling the connection between him and Daisy. The audience can clearly see that she belongs to someone else and she is comfortable in her present life. The author presents the truth to the audience to show how an ideal dream of one can cause him or her to become oblivious to reality. Gatsby has convinced himself to believe that since he and daisy have a past, …show more content…

Although Nick knows that Gatsby is being delusional and expecting high hopes for his past relationship, he finds Gatsby’s memory to be quite emotional and moving. Gatsby's memory is so moving that Nick cannot help but to look back on an apparently similar memory of his own. Nick refrains from explaining the truth to his friend because he is so caught up in his fantasy and there is no way to break him free and revive him to his senses. Also, during Gatsby’s love story, Nick feels some type of correlation with it. Nick tries to retrieve a memory presumably some time from his adolescence, maybe some tale about his first love or the innocence that he had such a long time ago. “I was reminded of something, an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.” Nick states “lost words, that I had heard”, he possibly have said these things himself during a time when he was blind sighted by love. It seems that since the memory must have taken place during his early youth because he cannot completely remember. The passages included at the end of chapter six are about both Gatsby and Nick based on memories that they share. on because he seems to be stuck in the old world where his life was well and presently he can only see the purpose of his life being reviving his

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