In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerlad, Jay Gatsby says to his best friend Nick Carraway that you can repeat the past “ Why, of course you can!” Jay Gatsby; he says that in order to convince both himself and Nick that he could recapture Daisy Buchanan; his former love. Sometimes it is better if you leave the past behind and leave it alone so you don't resurface the bad stuff that happened.
I do believe that we could never go back into the past and try to rekindle the things that were once good, but sometimes it could go bad. Because one time me and my friend got into a fight about her other friends and how they were being mean to another girl and called her names. And then there was another thing that she did that made me hate her and it's
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When Nick says “ you can't repeat the past”and Gatsby says “ Why, of course you can!” ( 110) and with that Gatsby refuses to accept that and tells him he can repeat the past, but the thing is you can't repeat the past and you can end up losing yourself in the process. Although we can see through the character Gatsby we are able to see the fact that time never stops for anyone and whoever wants to repeat their past ends up losing their future. furthermore we can tell that gatsby is very obsessed with his past and his love for daisy, that he ends up taking the blame for daisy which causes him to die waiting for her. And as you grow and get older, your experiences start forming who you are and the decisions you make in life. When we try to recreate the past it never ends up how we wanted it and we can just end up hurting ourselves. But we simply can not repeat the past because you are not the same person you were years ago. Can we really recreate the past for the better or for the worse? Do you want to recreate the past and relive your best moments or do you want to relive the bad