The Great Gatsby

Chapter 8

"He had lost the old warm world." Nick imagines that Gatsby might have had a moment of revelation. What is that revelation and how does it change his way of seeking the world? Pick out appropriate quotes.

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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

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The Great Gatsby

This refers to the fact that Gatsby had finally realized his dream was only a dream..... something he should have let go of long before.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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The Great Gatsby

That quote is in the question.