As Gatsby and Nick speed down the road and are pulled over, the audience is introduced to just how far Gatsby's influence spreads. Just as Gatsby gives favors to his party guests, Gatsby is given favors with the law and society people. It makes one wonder whether or not things like this happen in our world today. I would say yes, but have no proof. Despite Gatsby's easy life, he seems unhappy to Nick who later gets Gatsby's backstory from Jordan who summed the Gatsby-Daisy love story, "I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress - and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other," (Fitzgerald, 76). Immediately, we begin rooting for true love and the story of the underdog. Fitzgerald gives a whimsical feeling to his writing here with the fantastic descriptions attached to the flashback story and the dramatic retelling of the story because the readers can understand that the Gatsby-Daisy love can only end in tragedy. Their relationship now is well painted in the song by Reba McEntire and Brooks and Dunn If You See Him, If You See Her.
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