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