Feeding into his own fantasy and further enabling him to resist the pull of time and the changes it had exacted in his own life. It allowed him to reminisce over their moments together and their eventual reunion, bringing his lost past into the present, and as he idealized the situation, allows him to again have some meaning in his life. As Gatsby's fantasy was increasingly intruded upon by reality, he decided to take the final step and complete his dream by brining Daisy back into his life, yet even this was unimaginably hard for Gatsby, stuttering and uncharacteristically unnerved as he asked Nick to arrange a meeting. This is because up until this point, Gatsby had the safety of his dream to protect him, carefully nestled in the past, free from time and its intrusions of life and living, and in accepting the present he was taking the chance of damaging his fantasy irreparably.
Despite this risk, when Gatsby finally managed to merge past and present; his complete devotion to his past life and the idealized version of events that he had planned out for years prevented him from coming to terms with the changes that every person, event, and even memory undergo and Nick comments, .
"Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.".
When Gatsby is finally able to make his dream a reality, it falls short of his expectations and all of his planning and the fantasy of his relationship begins to decay, ".and the incarnation was complete" as Nick again comments. The ideal of perfection; being the perfect life and love for Gatsby, is unattainable now with Daisy as she has been made imperfect by the passage of time and as he slowly began to realize this, his worlds both imaginary and tangible begins to crumble around him.
Although Gatsby persisted on reliving the past, for a brief moment in his life there was acceptance of and even a striving for the present.
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