In this chapter, Gatsby has just managed to have his
meeting with Daisy, to see her again after all these years. They seem to have fallen in
love all over again and so Gatsby ought to be happy.
In
this quote, though, Nick is saying that Gatsby thinks that his happiness at this point
might not be real.
I think this is a good quote to sum up
the whole novel. In this book, Gatsby spends his whole life chasing after something.
He is chasing money and prestige and Daisy. But none of that stuff, in the end,
actually makes him happy. Fitzgerald is saying that all the things that people are
trying to chase in this era, their American dreams, are really fairly pointless and will
not make them happy.
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