Similarities Between Jay Gatsby And The Valve

Griffin Sisk

1/15/17

English 2

Mr. Magner

Midterm essay

Jay Gatz's Dream was first to get money. After a change of thoughts, he then wanted to go back in time and be with Daisy to recreate the past. In the Valve, the idea of the valve is how time flows and never stops. Jay's first dream is to get money and then when he gets only he becomes corrupted. After he has the money he tries to recreate the past because he wants to be with Daisy, because now he has money. Jay tries to reverse time to go back into the past. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and David R. Slavitt's The Valve, Jay Gatsby is the main character who has a dream of getting back with Daisy after he starts to acquiring currency.

Gatsby is a man with no morals that wants

That means once you start going down the stream of life you can never ever go back. Jay Gatsby, as mentioned before, wants his idea of recreating his time with Daisy by going back in time which is impossible. However, David Slavitt feels that you move on as life goes. One piece of inciting that Gatsby should have thought about "… what if the valve is defective?" He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…" (page 123). When Gatsby recalls the past, he dreams of going back to do everything again with Daisy; however, he can't and as the poem states, time passes. David R. Slavitt explains that life is a one-way flow, that can never be repeated. Similarly, Slavitt explains is the fact that the is the past may repeat itself. "It happens. And old loves, meeting again, have no idea what to do, resuming from where they were years before"(lines 6-7). Slavitt basically says that people who knew each other, meet again and their past brings them back, however, they have no clue what to do. This is not what Gatsby wants. He wants to go back to his past life and experience it whenever

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and David R. Slavitt's The Valve, a key point is a time in both stories because Jay Gatz’s dream is to go back in time to recreate his memories with Daisy as well as the poem’s symbol of time being represented. On example of this is that Gatsby is a man with no morals that wants to live in the past to reverse the flow of time just like in the poem. He wants to turn back time to the good all days because he thinks that the wartime flows are defective and if he tries hard he will be able to turn back time. He remembers he was happy and he thinks he would be just as happy if he was with Daisy and money. In contrast, the poem tells us, that that time is a one-way flow and you can never go back from it, it is just impossible to do so. You can never go backward only forwards. Like sharks die if they stay in the same place and never move on Gatsby stopped moving forward after he meet daisy and that caused him to die This relates to real life because, when Gatsby tries to be with Daisy it is trying to stop the flow of time, it is almost like you go from being a Freshman to a sophomore and then a junior but then wanting to be freshman because it way so easy but you know you never can never. go back no matter how hard you