The Great Gatsby
Chapter 8
"He had lost the old warm world." Nick imagines that Gatsby might have had a moment of revelation. What is that revelation and how does it change his way of seeking the world? Pick out appropriate quotes.
"He had lost the old warm world." Nick imagines that Gatsby might have had a moment of revelation. What is that revelation and how does it change his way of seeking the world? Pick out appropriate quotes.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
The Great Gatsby
This refers to the fact that Gatsby had finally realized his dream was only a dream..... something he should have let go of long before.
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.
The Great Gatsby
That quote is in the question.