Gatsby Recreate Past

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Every person who has ever lived has always wanted to recreate a good time from the past or wanted to relive a moment that has passed, however no one has been able to achieve it because one cannot recreate the past. Jay Gatsby is a man in his thirties who once had a great love with a girl named Daisy, however in the middle of this great love, Gatsby has to go to war and leave Daisy behind. Though Gatsby believes that Daisy will wait for him, she eventually marries a man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby continues to try to regain his past love and eventually the two meet, sparking Gatsby’s hope that he can recreate the past. Symbolized by a green light, Gatsby attempts to recreate the past, but he eventually leads himself to his doom in the process. …show more content…
While at Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s house, Nick, a young man who has recently moved from the Midwest to the East, learns of a mysterious man who goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. After coming back to his home, Nick sees a man who he believes is Gatsby. When he moves closer to attempt an introduction he observed that Gatsby, “stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock” (20). Archetypally, the color green represents both new life and envy. In the novel the green light represents Gatsby’s wanting for a new life with Daisy and Gatsby’s envy of Tom, as he wants to be be in a relationship with Daisy instead of Tom being in a relationship with Daisy. Gatsby reaching out to this green light, which is at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock, symbolizes Gatsby reaching out to Daisy in hopes of getting her back. Later on in the novel, Nick discovers why Gatsby was reaching out to Daisy 's dock, resulting in Nick arranging a …show more content…
When people focus on the past instead of enjoying the future, they will waste their lives on a goal that cannot be achieved. Gatsby’s entire life revolved around Daisy and winning her love back, but even when he made the ultimate sacrifice of taking any blame that Daisy has and putting in on himself, he still could not gain her affections. The past will always be just out of reach and unachievable, so it is whether one decides to let go of the past and enjoy the future or to dwell on the past and ignore the future that they will achieve a life of happiness and

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