The book i’m reading ‘The Great Gatsby’ By F.Scott Fitzgerald. I am currently on chapter 8 where the main subject is Gatsby’s love for Daisy being confirmed by himself. He told the story about how she promised to wait for him till be was back from war, but she found her way to a man her parents approved of, and married him.
Perhaps Gatsby no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
I believe that means more than what he’s just saying about Gatsby fail to win Daisy, is that he lost more of himself than he did her. Meaning the single dream was to have her and that what he was living off of, which is now broken.