Ever since his fight with Tom, Gatsby has been changed. He is no longer is confident self, he is nervous, and scared of some hidden feeling or person. He is blocking phone calls because he is waiting for a call from Chicago, but as Nick said, "...Gatsby himself believed that it would not come." (Pg 161)Gatsby is also acting differently, he is much less formal then he used to be, and only said "old sport" 2 times in 15 pages. He also shows that he is more desensitized to the killing of people, and his reaction to Myrtle's death proves this.
Now that Daisy has said that she doesn't love Tom, He seems to be somewhat less in love with her, or is that just me?
I'd agree, I think that he might have built up such high expectations over the years that when it finally happened it didn't fulfill him in the way he hoped.Or to be more myself in my cynical style of analysis. Fitzgerald likly planned for this because the book would have no where else to go after this if all was well so i'd guess that he will use what you have picked up on to progress to the next 'stage' of the story.
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