How Does Daisy Repeat The Past In The Great Gatsby

Hope and love are sometimes all you need to get through even the darkest situations, but they make such situations bearable perhaps by blinding one to the reality of things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is unable to forget his past lover Daisy Buchanan. He will do anything for her, to win her back. His entire life revolves around her, from his mansion to his luxurious parties; nearly his every decision is made with Daisy in mind. He is a romantic idealist with an inability to accept reality, and this mentality eventually destroys him. Gatsby believes that he can just go back and live everything over and over again. Gatsby, at one point, cries incredulously, “‘Can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!’”

One source states, Nick “deeply admires Jay Gatsby the lover and the dreamer, the man for whom the mansion and the bespoke clothes were only the means to reclaim his first love” (McInerney). The only reason for all of this and the only reason why he really did it was to get Daisy’s attention. All he wanted was to have Daisy back and not the clothes, just Daisy. It also talks about money when it reveals that “Gatsby becomes fabulously wealthy, but he doesn't care about money in and of itself. He lives in a beautiful mansion and dresses beautifully, but everything he does is for love. He invents a hero called Jay Gatsby and then inhabits this creation, just as we hope to reinvent ourselves, some day, any day now, almost certainly starting tomorrow”(McInerney). It is also mentioned that, “Gatsby is in control of that which is new and he owns everything which is desirable. On the other hand, everything he owns and controls has a single purpose: to win back Daisy Buchanan” (Grande). He might both care about the money but he will care for it because it could help home with Daisy and that why he has the money and the clothes at all and in the first place. If it were not for Daisy he would have the motive for money. Without Daisy Jay Gatsby might not have been motivated enough to make as much money and be as

It states “Gatsby imagines that he can erase the past and win Daisy back; it becomes clear that the entire gaudy jazz-age facade he's created has all been in the interest of recapturing his dream of Daisy”(Mcinerney). He dreams of going back and just redoing everything over again which just can not be done. He wanted to repeat the unrepeatable. Gatsby is also thought of as the hero of the book when it is clear stated, “ In the novel, Gatsby is depicted as a superman based on his outward performance; he is the master of water, earth, and air, represented by boat, car, and plane” (Grande). He had done many things in his life successfully and thoroughly. He had gone from a poor boy with nothing firm nowhere to a great guy with a lot and a wealthy over all income at the end of it all. Gatsby is not only depicted as a hero but as a romantic as well. It states, “Gatsby is clearly a romantic hero who tries to live his life on the basis of a single romantic longing” (Grande). Although, His love for Daisy does end up killing him but the overall picture is that Gatsby would do anything and everything in this power for the person or people that he loves at any point in