This also shows that that the meeting between Daisy and Gatsby is very important to Gatsby, which is an obvious reason for why he is so nervous. Finally, as Gatsby is telling Nick how he came into his money, fitzgerald describes his words as automatic. When Nick asks him what business he was in, he answers by saying “That’s my affair,” and then when he realizes that what he has said sounds suspicious, he corrects himself. This scene is different from the first scene of him being nervous because we can see that he often corrects himself and automatically says things, as described by
This also shows that that the meeting between Daisy and Gatsby is very important to Gatsby, which is an obvious reason for why he is so nervous. Finally, as Gatsby is telling Nick how he came into his money, fitzgerald describes his words as automatic. When Nick asks him what business he was in, he answers by saying “That’s my affair,” and then when he realizes that what he has said sounds suspicious, he corrects himself. This scene is different from the first scene of him being nervous because we can see that he often corrects himself and automatically says things, as described by