What is meant by Nick's comment: "Then it had not been merely the stars to which he aspired on that June night. He came alive to me...."The quote...

In Chapter Four of The Great
Gatsby, Nick Carraway's admiration of the quest for the ideal and romantic
reaction to Jay Gatsby's purchase of the house in West Egg for the sole purpose of being
near Daisy Buchanan foreshadows the ending lines of the
novel:

Gatsby
believed in the green light, orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It
eluded us then, but that's no
matter...

Despite his knowing
that Jay Gatsby's personal history is fabricated, Gatsby emerges for Nick Carraway as
the Romantic Ideal.  He pursues his "holy grail" and attains mythological proportions as
his car is likened to the flight of Icarus soaring through the Valley of Ashes "with
fenders spread like wings."

This statement of Nick about
Jay Gatsby in Chapter Four underscores the themes of aspiration and the theme of
the ideal.  For him, Gatsby's car's "three-noted horn" trumpets the approach of royalty
among the decadent, materialistic crowd that frequents Gatsby's
parties.