Examples Of Time In The Great Gatsby

In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby seemed to be living in the past. Five years ago Jay Gatsby lived as James Gatz. Time is an important message in the great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby wants to go to the back to past in Louisville with Daisy. In order to emphasize Gatsby needs to live in this past where he was happy, Fitzgerald uses lie and opposing views of Nick. At the end of chapter 4, Gatsby was a mysterious man was unraveling. He threw huge parties that not only drew attention to not only the “new money” Nick but also Daisy from the “old money” part of New York. Gatsby threw these extravagant parties every weekend hoping to see Daisy, but what Gatsby didn’t get was that daisy think the people on the west was uncivilized. The narrator Nick tried to get reason into Gatsby, but Gatsby denies it. “You can’t repeat the past” but Gatsby was so sure and replied “Why of course you can!” (110). this allows the reader to believe in hopes which is later introduces Gatsby dreams of hope of reconnecting with Daisy. Fitzgerald is saying that

This was very signatance to Gatsby because along with Gatsby Nick had hope. Nick father teaching taught him to have hope in people. Sharing hope in Gatsby he had reassurance “Gatsby turns out to be alright at the end,” Fitzgerald uses this in the beginning to give hope. Fitzgerald also use “creative temperament” then later on say “it is what preyed Gatsby, what a foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams of temporarily closed…” Throughout the novel Nick shows his native of his Midwestern terms in his hope for Gatsby. However Nick understanding of Gatsby passed was hard because he was “one of the few honest people” and his view of that the past should stay in the pass is already