The Great Gatsby
Emily Rodriguez
Ms.Philbrook
Eng II
8/19/13
“Can‘t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can!‘ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. I‘m going to fix everything just the way it was before, “he said, nodding determinedly. She‘ll see......” “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” (Pg 110)
The Great Gatsby By ,F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald , he uses this particular quote to show the symbolism that Gatsby was trying to live in the past. Nick and Gatsby were talking about Daisy, Nick clearly tries to change Gatsby’s opinion. Fitzgerald He showed the motif of Time . And showed the theme of Reality, and the theme of memory. That Gatsby was living in a Fantasy instead of a reality, and that Nick was the only one living in Reality. He was trying to say that all the characters were living in a fantasy world, and that just because you imagine it doesn’t mean it’s what is actually going to happen; and that’s what tore all the characters apart. He was trying to prove that living in the past can lead you to tragedy.
This quote is important in the book because it explains why the characters act the way that they do. This quote tells us that the characters pursue visions of the future that are set by their pasts which was then proved at the end of the book when Nick says “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning. (Pg 180) So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (pg 180) Making us the boats beating against the current. And, unfortunately, some of the boats are doomed to sink. (and or Gatsby, Daisy,
Ms.Philbrook
Eng II
8/19/13
“Can‘t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can!‘ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. I‘m going to fix everything just the way it was before, “he said, nodding determinedly. She‘ll see......” “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” (Pg 110)
The Great Gatsby By ,F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald , he uses this particular quote to show the symbolism that Gatsby was trying to live in the past. Nick and Gatsby were talking about Daisy, Nick clearly tries to change Gatsby’s opinion. Fitzgerald He showed the motif of Time . And showed the theme of Reality, and the theme of memory. That Gatsby was living in a Fantasy instead of a reality, and that Nick was the only one living in Reality. He was trying to say that all the characters were living in a fantasy world, and that just because you imagine it doesn’t mean it’s what is actually going to happen; and that’s what tore all the characters apart. He was trying to prove that living in the past can lead you to tragedy.
This quote is important in the book because it explains why the characters act the way that they do. This quote tells us that the characters pursue visions of the future that are set by their pasts which was then proved at the end of the book when Nick says “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning. (Pg 180) So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (pg 180) Making us the boats beating against the current. And, unfortunately, some of the boats are doomed to sink. (and or Gatsby, Daisy,