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Time and Time Again
Many times it is easy for us to try to live in the past. ... In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway have two opposing views on reliving the past. Gatsby believes that you can repeat the past, but Nick is correct when telling him that the past can not be revisited and Gatsby eventually proves this through his futile attempt to win back Daisy Buchanan. ... Daisy and Gatsby were once truly in love, before Gatsby went off to war. At that time she knew that she loved him but he did not have enough money for her so she moved on. When Daisy met her future husband, Tom Buchanan, she was again satisfied. The reason that she was able to move on so quickly was because she was naïve, but it ultimately brought her to happiness because she did not dwell on Gatsby.
The only time that Daisy showed any dissatisfaction or unhappiness was when Gatsby forced her back into the past. ... She knew that she had once been in love with Gatsby and that confused her since she had already started a family with Tom. ...
Jay Gatsby’s world was one totally composed of the past. ... Gatsby’s life revolved around Daisy, and trying to recreate their past together. When Gatsby realized that he was not enough for Daisy anymore he was heartbroken, to say the least. ... Although it is never known exactly what he was involved in, Gatsby speaks of Meyer Wolfsheim “making him” numerous times throughout the novel.
Approximate Word count = 1269
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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