Gatsby, the Player -----Character Building of Great Gatsby Gatsby's greatness lies not in his prospect of his future, but in his uncompromising insistence to "repeat the past"(116), when he irremediably fell in love with Daisy. ... And he has a wild imagination about Daisy and the house she lives in. To Gatsby, Daisy's house has "a ripe mystery about it"(155). ... Gatsby the poor player is crystallized when he tries to clarify all the wild speculation about him to Nick. Nick inquires him about which part of the Midwest he is from. ...

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