In Chapter 5, Nick Carraway comes home from a date with Jordan and Jay Gatsby is awaiting Nick's return at his house. Gatsby seems agitated and almost desperate to appeal to Nick so he invites him to Coney Island. Gatsby seems somewhat nervous when Nick agrees to his plan of inviting Daisy over for tea. When Daisy arrives to the meeting, it is awkward at first but when Nick Carraway leaves the room for a little bit, Daisy is shedding tears of joy and Gatsby is glowing. Gatsby tells Daisy about the long nights that he spends outside, staring at the green light at the end of her dock, dreaming about their future happiness. The use of the word 'future' could mean that Gatsby believes that his relationship with Daisy will just pick up from where they left off. Before the event of Daisy and Gatsby meeting, their relationship exists only in prospect, as Gatsby moves towards a dream that no one else can discern. The theme of the past's significance to the future is evoked in this chapter. His nervousness about the present and about how Daisy’s attitude toward him may have changed causes him to knock over Nick’s clock, symbolizing the clumsiness of his attempt to stop time and retrieve the past.