The Great Gatsby

What do you think the quote means? And what page and chapter is it from?

“He knew his mind would never again be free to romp like the mind of god”.

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In his mind, Gatsby has had nothing more than the dream of Daisy...... their first kiss removed the magic and made it real. He was no longer a god creating his own reality...... he had entered the real world, and he became a real man.

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. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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The Great Gatsby, Chapter Six, pg. 119