"As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face...that voice was a deathless song" (Fitzgerald 101).
Gatsby's true character, the one that cannot be concealed with a simple "old sport", is finally revealed in this passage (100). This man who had so long protrayed himself as a man of wealth and mystery with his lavish parties, is no higher a man than any other on Long Island, when he finally gets to share time with Daisy. The fact that Daisy is married to Tom and he doesn't even spend a moment feeling guilty over sweeping this woman off her feet, shows so definitely that Gatsby is not really the perfect gentleman who would do anything for anyone. When Gatsby's interests become entangled, he does not take into account the people he is hurting.
Gatsby's heart in this passage was depicted as "ghostly". He encompassed an emptiness, that could only be filled when this affair between himself and Daisy came about. He lived a lifestyle where he could expend his energy on anything he chose and he chose to use all of his "creative passion(s)" on Daisy (101). The tone in this passage depicts Gatsby's emptiness that Daisy was able to fulfill.
The most interesting part of this passage was the paralleled emptiness of both Gatsby and Daisy and how that seems to connect them together. Fitzgerald depicted Gatsby's as having a "ghostly heart" and then proceeded to discuss Daisy as having a voice like a "deathless song" (101). There is a suggestion that these two characters have sought one another because of the passion that they lack in everything else. They share a common interest in desiring something more than what they already have to begin with.
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