What is the significance of this quote from "The Great Gatsby"? He 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 upon the 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.

It marks the end of Gatsby's dream and consequences of past (major theme of the text).

Explanation:

This excerpt from "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is quite significant as it deals with one of the major themes of "memory and past" of the text. This excerpt also marks the end of Gatsby's flagrant dreams. He is passionately in love with Daisy and wants Daisy to abolish her past which can't be undone as one has to bear the consequences of their past deeds and have to live with it. This quote symbolizes the clash of Gatsby's dream with the practical world and his inability to accept the truth and ruin his desires or dreams. However, Nick tells Gatsby that "you can't repeat the past" and thus, insists him to get away with these residues yet, in the end, he says that "we're borne back" to our past as it happens in the case of Gatsby.