Can't Repeat the Past!

In chapter six we finally come to find out the true origins of Gatsby, although we still are unsure of his source of money. Many questions still linger with him, and I will attempt to address some of those, but I want to focus for a minute on Nick; specifically a quote I found of his concerning Gatsby's newest party, the one thrown to please Daisy:

...There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariable saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment (104).

Nick has fallen so deep into this new lifestyle that looking at the party through Daisy's eyes is the only way he can see it for it what it truly is: debaucherous, messy,  and irresponsible. Nick's enamored with the idea of Gatsby and West Egg so much so that he fails in his one true virtue of honesty. It's funny because we, as a class, have made this observation, but I believe it is the first time in the story that Nick has come to a similar realization. Daisy, with all her privilages and wealth, suddenly represents a new degree of morality. She wants all of the luxuries of aristocratic living without any of the drudgery. Fitzgerald always associates her with the color white, representative of purity and innocence (a daisy itself is a white flower). In fact, at Gatsby's party, the only scene she enjoys is a couple - one described also as an orchid flower - sitting under a white plum tree talking and kissing. This perturbs Gatsby because he has obsessively obtained all of his wealth to impress her, and she is not at all impressed!! Nick, back to his usual objective and rational self, tries to plead with Gatsby: "'You can't repeat the past,'", to which Gatsby replies: "'Why of course you can!'" (110).  The idea of time is again introduced. It was suspended before - symbolic of the stopped clock - and now, at least in Gatsby's eyes, he wants it turn back. Obviously, he is immersed in a new time and place, with a new, married Daisy, but he cannot seem to understand that fact. In his mind, he had it all planned out: get the money = get the girl. Not so fast...I cannot wait to keep reading and find out what exactly happens between them. Will Daisy come around, or will she remain satisfied with her superficial, yet protected, world? How will Gatsby respond if that does happen?