The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “Everything We Do” by Peter Meinke both present a desire for reviving their lost love with a certain someone. They both contain words that show desperation for a person to come back into their lives. The way both loverboys confess their willingness to do anything in their power in order for their “her” to accept them in their lives. The Great Gatsby tells a man’s perspective of sharing their first love with a woman, then losing it due to responsibilities, thinking he would be able to come back to her after. He later on finds out that she found a new love, therefore he tries to win her back. “Everything We Do” talks about someone’s sacrifices for their first love, then finding her in someone else’s …show more content…
The way both are about the painful truth about love. In the poem “Everything We Do,” the first two lines talk about losing their first love, “everything we do is for our first loves; whom we have lost irrevocably.” This feels similar to The Great Gatsby’s words of “he stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.” These both have the same topics of trying to chase love which they have already lost. “We hold (hidden, hopeless) the hope; that some day; she may fly in our plane; enter our building, read our poem” from the poem connects to the novel’s “‘I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night,’ went on Jordan, ‘but she never did.’” These two quotes both present the idea of hoping to bring their love back into their lives. They have their own ways of telling this topic as both talk about different situations, but the same ideas. The Great Gatsby and “Everything We Do” share the same intention of portraying a man’s desire to rekindle their past first love, hoping to bring it back to