How Does The Past Affect The Great Gatsby

Everyone knows that people change throughout their lives whether that be looks or character, but how much might you change if you were involved in an illegal business, war, deaths and having more money than most can even imagine? In my opinion, the Great Gatsby was a dramatic love story that told the fictional story of a man and his love for riches and the determination he used to get what he wanted.Throughout the life story in the book “The Great Gatsby” characters change so much from the beginning of the book to the end. In this book you’ll see Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy all express changes in their characters throughout the book.

In the story “Good Country People,” the author Flannery O’Connor talks about four main characters in this story. One is a young traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer. We will talk about the sales techniques he used to try and sale the bibles. One will find out how effective these methods are in getting what he wants. The other main characters are Joy, Mrs. Hopewell, and a nosy neighbor, Mrs. Freeman.

This act of selflessness demonstrates the extent of his love for her and his willingness to bear the consequences of her actions. Gatsby explores the idea of sacrificing personal happiness and integrity for the sake of love. Obsession can be negative, as seen in Gatsby's story, his infatuation with her isolates him from others and fuels unrealistic expectations. Instead of throwing extravagant parties for enjoyment, Gatsby hopes desperately that Daisy will attend, holding the possibility of reviving their past

Literature such as The Great Gatsby shapes or reflects society, and this was seen moderately throughout the novel due to the rich and Lavish lifestyles seen in the time period. In today’s society people are quick to judge and like to make assumptions of people and during scenarios when they aren’t who they really are. In the 7th chapter on page 131 Tom states “Daisy Loved me when she married me and she loves me now”. This quote is showing that Tom made an assumption of Daisy and he thinks that he really loves her, however in reality the person she really loved was Gatsby, and Tom didn’t even really love daisy until know knowing that his mistress Myrtle is leaving him.

The decade of 1920’s, also known as The Roaring Twenties, was a time of prosperity and is characterized by great changes in America. The novel “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925 and was written by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book shows how life was during this time of change and development. The story focuses on the lives of five major characters and how are their lives affected by their relationships with others. One of these characters is Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife and Jay Gatsby’s love interest and adoration. She is a beautiful, young woman who is also the narrator’s cousin. We get to know Daisy’s character by her actions and her decisions throughout the novel. Daisy Buchanan does not show any morals, she

The past is an idea that develops memories, while also establishing goals for the future. A past molds one’s personality into its unique form, which lasts a lifetime. Thus, it holds an essential role in creating the goals humans possess. In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald bestows a lost, romantic past on Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the character of Nick Carraway to enhance the overarching theme of his novel: “the past can not be repeated”.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he describes the past in a dream-like way. The passage explains how and why Daisy met Tom and details of their marriage. When authors typically describe the past it is for background information. However this is not entirely Fitzgerald’s goal while describing the past in the story. This dream-like passage is used as a reason for Daisy choosing Tom over Gatsby. Writing techniques such as word choice and a showing of status in the passage increases the dream-like feelings of Daisy’s past in order to understand why she chose Tom over Gatsby.

In conclusion, Gatsby had a really shady past whom he lied to everyone to keep his reputation clean in society and most importantly from Daisy. The past from Gatsby came to stab him in his back not only because he was but he was trying to repeat it and run away from it. The past affects Gatsby in a negative way because it led to the event of him

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Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s idea that you can’t repeat the past reflects in different lines of “Dream On” by Aerosmith. Gatsby expresses in the book his belief in the ability to return to the past, ““Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (110). Contrary to what Gatsby believes, the lines “The past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn” (3) in “Dream On” tells us that the past is in the past. The diction of “gone” can imply that it’s over with, you can’t go back. The lyrics, “I know nobody knows /Where it comes and where it goes” (5, 6) emphasizes the uncontrollability of time and how fast it goes. It contradicts how Gatsby feels because he thinks he can control time and go back. Nick made an analysis of Gatsby’s thoughts, “if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly…” (110).

In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's past is very important to everyone in the novel. Everyone wants to know where he came from and how he got his money. Gatsby's past impacted his present in both positive and negative ways. Gatsby's past impacted his present in a positive way because of when he was poor.

The Past Changes People Can we ever really forget the past, or does it always linger with us throughout our lives? It seems impossible for Gatsby to forget his past with Daisy. Daisy was the center of his life, and Gatsby’s world revolved around her.

John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” When we as humans incompetently reject the relentless progression of our lives, we stop ourselves from making opportunities of the future. For Gatsby, reincarnation of the past was viable and even necessary, in order to regain his happiness with Daisy. “Can’t repeat the past?”

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920’s and is a recollection of a man named Nick Carraway's memories of the summer he met Jay Gatsby the person he could not judge. Jay Gatsby changed the most throughout the novel because He started the novel as a rich and extravagant man with a mysterious background, but it was revealed that he didn't start his life this way, James Gatz was a seventeen-year-old fisherman on Lake Superior who had big dreams that he thought he never could make a reality. But he adopted a persona that modelled the ideal person through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old, and met his good companion and friend Mr. Dan Cody. But towards the end of the book the window that is Jay Gatsby is shattered

Fitzgerald reveals the detrimental impacts of living in the past, through the character James Gatz and his numerous flashbacks responsible for Gatz’s development into the character of Jay Gatsby. Gatz invented the character of Gatsby, providing a fallacious back-story, in order to convince himself and hopefully Daisy that there remains a possibility of love despite their difference in economic backgrounds. Nick reveals, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this (Platonic) conception he was faithful to the end” (132). Gatsby changed his past, hoping to change the outcome of his future happiness. Fitzgerald reveals Gatsby’s construed misconception of himself through flashbacks in order to emphasize the effect the past has on the present.