The Great Gatsby

In Chapter 6, Nick says, “You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby replies, “Can’t repeat the past?Why of course you can!” (p. 110). Gatsby then describes a moment when he had kissed Daisy.Nick describes Gatsby’s memory as “appalling sentimentality,” after which Nick himselfremembers a “fragment” and an “elusive rhythm” (p. 111). Are these passages about Nick orGatsby? What has Nick forgotten that he is trying to retrieve? Finally, does Gatsby misuse thepast and his memories in order to enliven the present?