Gatsby Love Quotes

Joey Karlavage

Crowell

English 10

5/23/2023

The Crave for Love

“Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.” — Kathleen Norris. The quote made by this woman proves that once what was is now over, do not look back to the past. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds’s, “The Great Gatsby,” the main character Jay Gatsby had a past with this woman, unfortunately, he is poor and by the time he acquires the wealth to recapture Daisy to make her love him again, she has moved on to another man and life. He keeps trying to repeat what they had but every time he tries it just fails. Jay Gatsby needs to learn that what has happened, is over, and you can't repeat the past. Throughout The Great Gatsby, the author proves that one can’t repeat

Another example is Jay longs for his friends to believe what he desires for them to think and finally Nick communicates this to Jay but he doesnt listen. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s obsession with the past to delude himself into the present, recapture the memories of the past, and derail his future and therefore his American Dream. A love-struck Gatsby embraces a past that is impossible for him to recreate. Nick, looking out for his friend, is advised to help Gatsby, but he is too far gone in his head for love. Stuck in his reality, Gatsby thinks about all the ways he will get Daisy back, “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before… she’ll see,” (Fitzgerald 110). Nick Validates the point that Gatsby is so far gone in his love for Daisy that he won't listen to anyone, as seen in what Nick says to Gatsby, he is trying to help him by telling him what he sees and knows is true. Nick using his wisdom to aid Gatsby proves that Gatsby is secluded from reality. Gatsby doesn't listen to Nick when he tells him that you can't have what you once had again. This complements the fact that Gatsby is too in love with Daisy, for he gave up his whole life and Gatsby thinks he is doing all these things for her and giving up everything

Gatsby is stuck in his phenomenon about himself and Daisy. Nick is very observant, he notices that Gatsby is thinking over what Nick had just said. Gatsby just wants to think about Daisy, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of him perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” (Fitzgerald 4 110). While Gatsby was thinking, Nick was also thinking about Gatsby and Daisy. He knows that Gatsby wants to get back with Daisy and Gatsby is in his reality trying to get her back. Gatsby doesnt think when he wants to drop everything for someone who he once loved. It is seen that he is dead set on trying to repeat his past and he doesn't even want to think about the consequences if things don't go his way. In addition, he thinks of even more ways to recover what once was for them. Daisy doesnt want to redo her past with Gatsby because she knows that it will never be the same again. Since Gatsby wants nothing more than to be with Daisy, he ruins his future and forever doesn't reach his American dream of being with her. Daisy is all Gatsby can think about and it is starting to corrupt his mind, meaning that he forgets about his health and feelings just so he can be with Daisy and live his past again. “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her fault, but because of the