Some may say the past is in the past, and to cherish the memories you once created. Others may say it is impossible to relive the past. However, I, Jay Gatsby, believe that it is possible to recreate the past. Things and people can get lost in the past, and the only way to retrieve them is by recreating what once was. I refuse to let the people and things I love get lost in the past, which is why an active goal of mine is to successfully recreate the past, to fulfill my ultimate goal of being with Daisy Buchanan. One of my friends Nick Carraway believes the opposite of me, that you can not recreate the past. Once the old sport tried to tell me you can not repeat the past, to which I replied with “‘Cant repeat the past?’ [I] cried incredulously. …show more content…
One way I show that I believe recreating the past is by saying “I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before” (Fitzgerald 117). By using the word “fix”, it shows how I believe that the past is the best possible option. How I view the past as better than the present, and how fixing my life would be by recreating and relieving the past. The best, and only, part of the past that is important to me, is my love Daisy. Daisy is what keeps me going. I have been trying to reach her for many years. When I found out my friend Nick had a connection with Daisy, I asked if he could invite her to his house and I would be there. I was so passionate about recreating the past that I had “...waited five years and bought a mansion where [I] dispensed starlight to casual moths--so that [I] could come over …show more content…
I have gone through so much to reach Daisy, and to get the chance to recreate the past with her. I buy a mansion close to her, and always keep an eye out for ways to reconnect with her, and when I find out, even if it's by going to a stranger's garden, I will take that opportunity. I have always looked out for Daisy, and see her in my everyday things. One symbol of Daisy I look for quite often is the green light glowing from her house’s dock across from my mansion. I see the light everyday and I am reminded of her. Nick often sees me staring at the light and, “[I] stretched out [my] arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and as far as [Nick] was from [me] [Nick] could have sworn [I] was trembling” (Fitzgerald 25-26). By reaching out to the green light, this shows my hope for being able to recreate and relive the past with Daisy. The green light symbolizes Daisy, and reaching out for it shows my desire for her, when I once had her, and what I once had with her. Through all of this talk of recreating the past, Nick had made some observations about me that stuck true. Nick noticed that “[I] talked about the past , and [Nick] gathered that [I] wanted to recover something, some idea of
Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way that might have been the end of a dock when I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and i was alone again in the unquiet darkness. ”(P.21) Gatsby for some reason symbolized the green light at the end of Daisy's dock as a symbol for his hope and dreams and the quote gives the reader an idea on how gatsby feels about her as an example when he (trembles). So whenever Gatsby sees this light at the end of Daisy's dock it just reminds him of his hope and dreams that includes Daisy and is why he has worked so hard to get his
Memory is our gateway to the past. It changes and alters overtime and may become at some point inaccurate. What people see in the present also changes our opinions on previous events. It plays a great role in storytelling for better or worse. In Janie Mae Crawford’s story of her entire life is affected by her memory in many significant ways.
Everyone tends to look back at their lives every know and then. The past can be used a tool, a motivator and a guide to help drive their future. Many people rely on their past to help guide them and use it as a tool to help make decisions. Even though looking at ones past is a giid thing Some people rely too heavily on their past and they get lost in it.
Gatsby believes that he can "repeat the past" and gain Daisy's love back, because it has already happened, why not again? I do think it is possible to repeat the past. If it didn't work out the first time, try, try, again. At the end of chapter six, the author states how, "At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. "
Gatsby was so infatuated with Daisy that he bought the house directly across from her. Nick describes a night where he saw “Gatsby genuflecting to the light on Daisy's dock, ‘the bellows of the earth have blown the frogs full of life,’ and there is a sound of ‘wings beating in the trees. ’”7 Gatsby would watch the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, longing for her to be his. His attempts to “recapture Daisy's love are [also] vain attempts to ‘repeat the past,’ an ambition to which Gatsby devotes all his energies.
He spent five years of his life trying to reconnect with her, going to extreme lengths such as buying a house across the bay from her and throwing large parties with the hopes that she might come one day. Interestingly though, Daisy is not just
When we try to recreate the past it never ends up how we wanted it and we can just end up hurting ourselves. But we simply can not repeat the past because you are not the same person you were years ago. Can we really recreate the past for the better or for the worse? Do you want to recreate the past and relive your best moments or do you want to relive the bad
Nick’s very first encounter with Gatsby demonstrates the obsessiveness that will be further elaborated during the course of the novel. This obsession is then materialized in the form of the green light,“stretching out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way… Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away” (Fitzgerald 21-22). This quote seems to have no meaning in the beginning. Yet later on when we learn about the past of both Gatsby and Daisy we see how the light represents the idea of Daisy.
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”(Fitzgerald). In The Great Gatsby, there are many examples of symbolism, but the most prominent one is the green light. Jay Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan who lives across the bay on East Egg. She has a green light on the end of her dock that Gatsby often stares at, and even reaches for. Gatsby and Daisy used to be together, but he went to war and she moved on.
Jay Gatsby has been consistently looking back on the past, always romanticizing it with
The idea of being trapped in the past in The Great Gatsby Thinking about the past is something that many people do at some time in their life, but some people are more given to it than others. Time works differently for Gatsby in the novel "The Great Gatsby ", written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. An example of being imprisoned in the past can be found in the character Jay Gatsby. He doesn't have deep thoughts about his past occurrences but instead has a strong desire to return to them. The majority of people who live in the present day make plans for their future desires and goals.
I evaded nostalgia. Tried hard to forget. But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers. I remembered too well that education had changed my family’s life.
While memories allow people to have a positive perception of the past, thinking back to them frequently leads to an unclear understanding of the present. Melinda’s
The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock resembles her and Gatsby’s future with each other. When Nick had seen him with his arms stretched towards the light, it is a representation of the achievements Gatsby wants to obtain, such as a life with Daisy. Near the end of the novel, Nick explains, “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever” (93). The light diminishing represented Gatsby’s hopes being destructed. Now that his hopes have vanished, a void abrupts his dreams.
The green light on Daisy's dock is a constant reminder to Gatsby that she is there, and the possibility for love is still alive. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us” (21). Gatsby's hope in the light coming from the dock shows how he feels towards his future and about Daisy. The light is always on which may mean that Gatsby is always trying to show off to Daisy and win her heart. Even though there is light in this situation, Gatsby is forever reaching towards it but never has full grasp over it.