In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, we meet a character named Jay Gatsby, we see how he can’t move on and how he is stuck in the past. Reading The Great Gatsby made me realize that I am going to have to move on in life and you can't stay in the past or it will hurt more than you realized. Many scenes show that Jay Gatsby is stuck in the past and that he can't move on, and we see closer to the end of the book that this affects him. In the story, we see how Gatsby loves Daisy even after not seeing her for years. Daisy has since moved on and is now married to Tom Buchanan. When Gatsby and Tom are in an argument about Daisy, she tells Tom” I did love him once--but I loved you too’’(132). This shows that although Daisy did love Gatsby once she has moved on and is now with Tom. …show more content…
But this would not happen and he would pay the consequences for not moving on. Gatsby not moving on from Daisy would lead to consequences, he did not believe that it would end with his death.” but of course, I'll say I was.”(143). This was after Daisy killed Myrtle in Gatsby's car and Gatsby said he would take the blame for it. This is what would lead to his life being taken by George Wilson. he cared so much for Daisy, even though it's been a year since they were together. This would lead Myrtle's husband George Wilson to kill Gatsby. Believing that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtles. The novel The Great Gatsby made me think differently about literature and life because it showed me that just because you want something to happen doesn't mean it will