Discuss the effects of Daisy’s incarnation as Gatsby’s dream.
...and she slipped through his fingers. So, even when his wealth and stature are at their greatest, he is not content. He must have Daisy. There is love, but more than that there is a drive to posses her because that is what he wanted for all of those years. She was part of his image for the future and he had to have her. Although Gatsby seems very kind and gentle, he is not afraid to be unscrupulous to achieve what he wants. As he was willing to become a bootlegger when he wanted money, he is willing to do anything to have Daisy. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (111) He created in his dream for the future a place for her and he will not be content to have that gaping hole. Gatsby wanted to return to how things were five years earlier: when their lips touched “she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (112) He believes that things will soon be as they once were, only better. He is very determined in his ideas and he says, in fact: "’I'm going to fix everything just the way they were before,’ he said nodding determinedly. ‘She'll see.’” (117) The green light is the vision of Gatsby’s goal. In a world where Gatsby is powerful because he could essentially obtain anything with his money, Daisy is a challenge to him, because she could not be purchased. When, at last, Gatsby believes that Daisy is his, he no longer idolizes her. Now that he realizes he has her, she is no longer desirable. At first, the green light seemed very near. The green light was physically close to him but he thought he could never actually have it, meaning Daisy. Money could be viewed in the same sense. As soon as Gatsby realizes it, it was again a normal green light on a dock. Therefore, the green light has no more meaning to him and neither does Daisy. In fact, Daisy had said to Gatsby that she would have called, but “Gatsby himself didn’t believe it … and perhaps he 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.” (162) Striving towards some ideal is the way by which a man can feel a sense of involvement, a sense of his own identity; Gatsby’s ideal is Daisy and he feels involved in society only during his attempt in conquering her. Also, the parties Gatsby always organized, were a mean to get Daisy to him and they never worked. Now that he had her, there was no use in the parties. When Nick and Gatsby attempt to describe the charm in Daisy's voice, Gatsby says that “her voice [was] full of money.” (120) With these few words, Nick stumbles across a revelation which changes his entire view of society: "That was it. [he’d] never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in [her voice], the jingle of it, t...