In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main idea is based around 2 past lovers. One is known as Daisy Buchanan and she has somewhat moved on with her life. The other is known as Jay Gatsby and he is still stuck in a world where he believes he and Daisy will soon be together and live the American dream full of money and riches. Some readers believe the love Gatsby had for Daisy was just an obsession hidden by what he really wanted. Along those lines, Gatsby is known for being tied to the past, more specifically his own past. He is the kind of person who is stuck in the past trying to relive it in the present and who also believes that if they did bring everything from the past to the present nothing could have changed, everything would be the same as he left it. “He talked alot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself that …show more content…
Also it shows the idea that he wanted to be the person he was at that time, he was so stuck in the past and all the lies he had made up to portray the idea he wanted of himself, which was to be a rich man with a woman of money and that woman would have been Daisy. “He kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever believed in its existence before” This quote shows that Daisy did not wait for Gatsby that long because she was not focused on the past and believed she needed to move on and now she is a mother but also a wife. When it says “He had ever believed in its existence before” shows that things are different now everything changes when people grow older and the past moves on and Gatsby is now realizing that you can't just go into someone's life that you used to have a past with and think you can just change thing to what the use to be, just because Gatsby believe nothing could have changed in there life because he thinks he is able to repeat the