Dat Huynh IB English Literature October 9, 2017 C12 Journal 4 In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald organizes the characters in his novel to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This is evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s past relationship and Gatsby aspiring so much for Daisy and dreaming of her to be the person she once was in the past. Fitzgerald’s constant shift of the past creates a sense of fractured reality, and a reality that is dependent on its relationship to the past. Fitzgerald presents Gatsby with many issues repeating his past instead of living in the present. When Daisy comes back to Gatsby’s life he tries to return to the past he once had with Daisy. This becomes apparent when Nick talks to Gatsby about