The Great Gatsby

How can a reader tell from this passage that Gatsby is an unrealistic dreamer?

How can a reader tell from this passage that Gatsby is an unrealistic dreamer? Support your answer with evidence (pull a quote) from the text.

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This is in chapter seven

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Gatsby tells Daisy: "It doesn't matter anymore. Just tell him the truth--that you never loved him--and it's all wiped out forever."

Even Daisy quarrels back at Gatsby that he is demanding too much: "Oh, you want too much!... I did love him once--but I loved you too."

Gatsby attempts to create his own truth through a false reality in his head. He tries to recreate the past and does anything he can to make it into a reality. He is living in an unrealistic dream because Daisy did love Tom. Gatsby does not understand that the time that was lost when he went to fight in the war and attain his wealth is gone. No matter how much Gatsby tries to recreate or control that lost time, it is really just a huge unrealistic imagination.