Pages 81-96
"I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song," (Fitzgerald, 96).
At last, a reunion between two star-crossed lovers who had been lost to time and the expectations of society.
"But it wasn't coincidence at all," Ms. Baker reminds us (Fitzgerald, 78). This had been a plan of Gatsby's ever since he lost the eye of Daisy Fay years ago. He established himself at a location where their paths would be likely to cross, yet fate never interjected its guiding hand. I now see that the point of his open invitation parties were to see if Daisy would wander in through his front door, but she failed to make it.
Gatsby had imprisoned himself in the past, obsessed over an idea that once was. He idealized his former love, but still, he remained satisfied when her reality revealed itself to him. His knocking of Nick's clock during their meeting is symbolic of this. It is a reminder that time has separated them, but they are going against it in order to try their love once more. Gatsby is shattering the distance between them, enacting his plan that he so carefully forged over the years.
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