Everyone has moments where you lift your veils to hide or feel comfortable in a situation. Sometimes we all even focus on past events to help our fiction. It seems natural to take part in this periodically, but imagine if you were so consumed with your illusory face that you took part in it for years at a time. After a period of time you would no longer be able to distinguish the created image from your real image. So you would turn to what you know can be altered just like your image, you would turn to memories of the past. You would convince yourself that whatever you had in the past you could easily get in the present, which is not true (sp. 2). This is the situation of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Each of these characters in the story The Great Gatsby (F.Scott Fitzgerald) constantly puts up facades, and when the distinction between reality and desire becomes intertwined, they become abnormal, and a certain price must be paid for the involuntary return to the past. These two characters told a fact that will last a lifetime: lifting the veils for too long, while living in a parallel universe and previous times will lead to your permanent extinction, eternally altered or completely lost when reality overtakes you. (sp.3 )Jay Gatsby, the conflicted man who imagined himself in “James Gatz,” who at seventeen invented and transformed himself into Jay Gatsby” (Telgen 67). Gatsby was a man who hid beneath facades, living for them sometimes blindly. (Sp.4) This led him to unconsciously develop "double vision" -(Telgen65) It means that he saw in two pairs of eyes: the uncontrolled natural ones and the cloaked robotic ones. (sp.5) The Cloaked set (which he could control at this point) distracted him from Daisy's current state. The realization that the girl he “loved” was not the golden image he perfected numerous times with memories of his constructed past. He couldn't understand that he was only in love with the illusion he had created years ago. He allowed these memories to guide him and push him towards things he didn't understand that he could never have. Daisy's faint crystalline memories obsessively guided him “toward the green light” (Fitzgerald 13), in which he nurtured and protected the fragile, Daisy-caught. Jay "Gatsby brought [a] house so that Daisy was right across the bay" (Fitzgerald 147) .