We seldom
think of what 's dreams are in this novel, sincefocuses most of his attention on 's
all-encompassing dream of reuniting with Daisy.
However, we get one glimpse,
through Nick, of what Daisy's dream might have been:
there
wasbeside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to
age.
This statement comes afterhas found out about Daisy
and Gatsby's affair and after the tense confrontation in the Plaza hotel. Tom has researched
Gatsby and exposed to Daisy, Jordan, and Nick some of Gatsby's criminal background, revealing
that most of his money was earned illegally. The revelations of Gatsby's precarious, illegal
wealth and the ease with which he could be imprisoned destroy Daisy's dreamwhich, it appears,
was much like Gatsby's dream. She had dreamed that the two of them could set back the clock and
start over again. In the Plaza, as Tom speaks, Daisy
was
drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only...
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