How does someone’s past affect their own future? Some people like to believe that it is incredibly easy to block out a part of history and move on instantly, however this isn’t the case for all. In “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses the high amount of power that the past can hold over people through Jay Gatsby’s sense of longing and love towards Daisy and all of the things he did for her. His obsessive love from the past forced him to only act toward his vision, and he became blind to all else in the present. Gatsby was deeply in love with Daisy, and even though she moved on, he did everything in his power to get as much money as possible over five years to get her attention again. His love for Daisy also made him blind to her past five years, and he attempted to make her believe that no time has …show more content…
First of all, Jay Gatsby’s focus and love for Daisy was the driving factor in all of his actions to become rich in order to impress her. Gatsby was actually from a small farm in the Midwest, and his family had little money. He met Daisy while on deployment in the military, and that moment sparked his love for her. When Gatsby had to leave Louisville, Daisy ended up marrying Tom Buchanan, and while she remembered Gatsby, she had moved on. Gatsby proceeded to work as hard as possible to get a mansion and wealthy bank account of his own. When he finally talked to Daisy again for the first time in five years, he wanted to bring her back to his mansion to show her how much money he had now. Gatsby was staring at his house from across the bay on Tom’s lawn, and he said to Nick, “‘My house looks good, doesn't it?’ he demanded. ‘See how the whole front of it catches the light.’ I agreed that it was splendid. ‘Yes.’ His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. ‘It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it’” (Fitzgerald