Gatsby's Need for Daisy

As I adressed in my last post, Gatsby is living entirely in a dream world. Upon changing his name, he set his sights completely upon "his platonic conception of himself" and sought only to achieve that goal by whatever means necessary. Soon enough, this "conception" became seeing himself with Daisy and nothing else. This was his ultimate dream, an almost magical relationship. "He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God." At this moment, all of his previous dreams flooded into this single hope of getting Daisy. From Nick's introduction we knew that this was Gatsby's greatest feature, "his extraordinary gift for hope". And he never stops hoping this whole time even when this hope may seem disillusioned in the eyes of the reader. He continues to strive for this ideal dream even after he hasn't seen Daisy for years and she is married to another man. But after latching on to Daisy as the ultimate goal of all of his hope, he cannot let go no matter what. Every thing he does in his life must build to this ultimate purpose. If she doesn't accept him when all is said and done, all of his life will have been for nought.