Question

What is the significance of this quote?

He [Gatsby] wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide on more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago.
"And she doesn't understand," he said. She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours---"
He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.
"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past"
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see." (6.128-131)

Answer 1

The significance of this quote about Jay Gatsby was to show his desperation for the restoration of the love between him and Daisy. Daisy was formerly in love with Jay Gatsby before he disappeared to make his money through illegal means in order to compete with Tom for Daisy's love. He became a "bootlegger" who traded on banned alcohol and through this trade became very rich. He then relocated to West Egg opposite East Egg town where Daisy and husband, Tom, were residing, in order to win her love back.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East, two great towns surrounding a valley of squalor.