Question about a passage from a poem

[Zhao]

Hello everyone,

The novel The Great Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald is introduced by the following passage :
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!'
The first line is clear and means if a girl's attention may be caught by buying expensive clothes ( and more general things I guess ) then do it. But what does it mean to " bounce high " . Does the author mean you have to work hard to achieve great things in order to seduce the girl ? Or just to do idiot things so that girl distinguishes you ?

I hope you can help me understand that introduction.

Thanks,

[OrphanPip]

I think you've got the essence, which is do whatever you can to impress the girl. However, it's ironic given the outcome of the novel.

[Zhao]

Thank you for your answer. Because when I search "to bounce" I just find that it means to jump, to rebound... Maybe the author means by it to act fancily.

[OrphanPip]

Thank you for your answer. Because when I search "to bounce" I just find that it means to jump, to rebound... Maybe the author means by it to act fancily.

I think implicit in the line is the irony of "bouncing" being a pointless action without any inherent value, which juxtaposed with the line about the gold hats reinforces the frivolity of material luxury.

[Zhao]

Thank you for your answers.