Gatsby on the other hand cares about getting Daisy back and tries to repeat the past. Fitzgerald claims that, “can’t replace the past… why of course you can!” (116). In this quote Gatsby is trying to convince himself that you can repeat the past and that him and Daisy would be able to pick up from where they left off five years ago. When a person wants to repeat the past it never turns out the same and everything gets
Although Gatsby cannot see it, Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s friend, can see the inalienable effect his past has on Daisy. Fitzgerald wrote, “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to causal moths so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden” (Fitzgerald 78). After all these years without seeing Daisy, Gatsby concocts a perfect plan to reunite with her. As much as Gatsby wants Daisy, he cannot make her feel the way she once did. Fitzgerald wrote, “’You can’t repeat the past.’… ‘Can’t repeat the past?’
He has thrown so many parties and seems a little bit crazy trying to relive his past. When Nick Carraway told Gatsby that he can’t relive the past Gatbsy said, “You can’t relive the past? Well of course you can!” (Fitzgerald). This quote helps one to recognize that Gatsby is the only one who believes that it is possible to live his past life again.
Contrast of Relationships in The Great Gatsby Modern Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates the opposite sides of Gatsby and Tom’s true character through the way they treat others by using specific details, strong diction, and dialogue. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to contrast the different personalities and moral standards of tom and Gatsby’s characters. He achieves this purpose by creating a compelling tone and summarizing the point in time where each of their true character is revealed by each of their actions. The contrast that Fitzgerald creates between the characters Tom and Gatsby is demonstrated through how he uses romantic diction to describe the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy and loaded diction to describe Tom and Myrtle’s relationship.
Gatsby then tries to fix his relationship with Daisy. Nick tries to calm Gatsby down by stating, “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously.
He wants not only wants to erase the past but also wants Daisy to confess that she has only loved him. This would give him confirmation that repeating the past is obtainable. Gatsby reluctantly criticizes Nick on his way of thinking with the phrase, “Can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!” This passage shows how strongly Gatsby lusts for the idea that he can repeat the time in which Daisy only ever loved him and she did not have a family of her own.
He didn't even accept his own parents or any part of his past as his own. Gatsby’s past is full of lies, a life created from imagination that is not even real. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” [Nick] ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?”
Gatsby answers, ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously, ‘Why of course you can!’” (Fitzgerald, 116). I believe that history can and will repeat itself in most ways, but only if it is allowed by both parties. Jay Gatsby believes that he and Daisy can have the same relationship they once had before he left to go into the war; however, Nick Carraway believes that too much has changed and that they can not possibly get back together and have the same relationship they had many years before.
Then, when Nick tells Gatsby that he can’t repeat the past, he just insists that he can (110). It is impossible to recreate the past as exactly how it was, but Gatsby is determined to. His determination to bring back something that is gone and so far away from him now shows that he is really dreaming and almost delusional. It has been five years since Gatsby has been with Daisy
In Gatsby’s mind this was untrue and that if you wanted to recreate the past you could. He was willing to go to any lengths to get back what he so ever craved. “It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning ——” Fitzgerald had left the last part of that sentence blank because we don’t really know what could happen. Gatsby struggled to recreate the past, a past when he was with Daisy.
All the while, Nick continually warns Gatsby of the fact that the past cannot be physically recovered, no matter what he does. Needless to say, Gatsby continues to chase after Daisy, with deadly consequences. Thus, The Great Gatsby does a great job of laying out the consequences of pursuing the past, and yet does not give a clear answer on the issue. However, in a man’s life, it is clear that the past can be retrieved in some way
He buys everything he can to make the past become a reality now but even with all of his money he can’t buy the one thing he truly needs to complete the past that he once had. Gatsby in the novel says, “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (Gatsby Ch. 6).
The relationships that intertwine with each other in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald all have motivations for either Love, Desire, or Sex. All the major relationships in the book are not stable and have their falling out periods. So begs the question, “What is love?” And “Does money buy love?” as it could be argued for the relationship between Tom and Daisy Buchanan.
Eighteen is the age of adulthood within the United States, the age in which individuals become eligible to participate in several life-altering decisions such as getting married or voting for public officials - despite this, individuals of this age are not permitted to buy or consume alcohol. Restricting the drinking age to residents at and above the age of twenty-one has been an abysmal failure. Elevating the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) to twenty-one years old in the 1980s has influenced a dangerous culture of reckless behavior among young adults, including unsupervised extreme and binge drinking. While this law may have reduced the amount of highway deaths, it may also be contributing to an increase in off-highway deaths. In the United
Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main focus of the plot appears to be on the erratic relationships that Nick, the narrator, observes over his time spent in West Egg. The main relationship however is the romance between Nick’s wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby, and Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, who is married to a rich man named Tom Buchanan. Over the course of the book, Gatsby’s “love” for Daisy leads both of them to pursue an affair that ends in the death of Gatsby, by a man who mistook him for his wife’s killer. The book, at first glance, attempts to make the romance of Gatsby and Daisy seem like a wonderful heart-wrenching reunion of two lovers after years of being apart from one another. However, there are many signs that
