I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past I did .
love him once - ' Gatsby's eyes opened and closed."" (p. 133) After the confrontation with Tom that .
Gatsby has waited five years to have, he realizes his dreams shatters because Daisy couldn't live up to .
what he has in mind. The last part of the quote mentions Gatsby blinking his eyes rapidly. He couldn't .
believe what's happening, his dream is so different from actuality or reality. The reality is, Daisy has .
always shown infidelity towards Gatsby. Her actions before her wedding clearly show that she doesn't love .
Gatsby, "She took it [letter from Gatsby to tell her to wait for him] into the tub with her and squeezed it up .
into a wet ball," it was coming to pieces like snow Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan .
without so much as a shiver.""(p. 77-78) This is another weakness of the American Dream Fitzgerald points .
out: because the American Dream dictates that one's ambitions could "take one anywhere-, people starts to .
dream too big; this in turn causes one to lose grip on reality. Clearly Daisy never loved Gatsby, yet Gatsby .
is so caught up in his ambition that he loses touch with reality. The letter "coming to pieces like snow- .
foreshadows Gatsby's soon-to-be-shattered Dream that also comes to pieces. The torn-to-pieces letter also .
become "likes of snow-. Snow, which is white, symbolizes purity; yet the letter that is torn to pieces isn't .
really snow, it's only "like snow-. This represents the fact that Gatsby's image of Daisy is pure, or .
someone devoted to him; yet that's not reality, instead it's something "like- it. Once again showing that .
Gatsby loses touch on reality because of this frenzy American Dream. Fitzgerald sums up his book and this .
message once again through Nick's thoughts, " I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out .
the green light He [Gatsby] had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so .