How To Repeat The Past In The Great Gatsby

Have you ever wish you could turn back time? Maybe wish that you could change the past or have something the way that is once was? Well, relationships can be the way they once were. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott-Fitzgerald, Nick says to Gatsby, “I wouldn’t ask too much of her…You can’t repeat the past.” Page 116. Fitzgerald. But, Gatsby answered, “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” page 116 Fitzgerald. The past can be the same as the present, as long as the people who want it to be the same can be ready to forgive, forget, and put forth dedication. For example, Gatsby has to be willing to forgive Daisy for marrying Tom and just leaving him in the dirt. Just as in Chapter 4 it says “Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months’ trip to the South Seas.” page 81, Fitzgerald. Gatsby has to be willing for forgive her for that if he wants the past to remain the same, and he has forgave her, so the past can remain the same!

Such as when Nick and Gatsby are eating lunch and Tom begins to talk to Nick, when Nick says “” I’ve been having lunch with Mr. Gatsby---” I turned towards Mr. Gatsby, but he was no longer there.” Page 79, Fitzgerald. The relationship that Gatsby is trying to build with Daisy calls for him to forget Tom, and he seems to be going a great job of it! Gatsby really wants their relationship to be the same, strong, fiery love that they once had, and they can achieve it with the use of