This scene occurs during a flashback of Gatsby going to find Daisy, yet failing to reach her. Nick, as the narrator, states that in this moment Gatsby realizes Daisy is lost to him forever. While this statement is true, Gatsby does not believe in it and if he did he would never admit it, at least not in the early years like these. Gatsby may have known that Daisy would be out of reach to him for a while, however, he must have believed that they would meet again because of the circumstances he set up for himself. After this time he went to go buy a house across the lake from Daisy and then proceed to throw lavish parties in hopes of her attendance one day. Nick states that he knew this fresh, young, carefree part of Daisy was gone, but nobody
