he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." "in her actual and astounding presence none of it was real"(97) he had only bought that house "so that Daisy would be just across the bay."(83) "Five years"(138) prior to the setting of the novel, when Gatsby first experienced Daisy's "air of breathless intensity"(155), he knew that she would not love him as he truly was, so he covered himself with a "invisible cloak"(156) to keep hold of her. The scene, in which Gatsby describes his first kiss with Daisy, is the ultimate example of his romantic imagination. The instance before the kiss he described as "listening...to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star."(117) He explains the kiss as having "forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath" and that after wards "his mind would never romp again like the mind of God"(118), and so his dream began. "Five Years Later"
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