The Great Gatsby Time Analysis

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby time is very precious and important. Chapter six Jay Gatsby invited his love Daisy and her husband to one of his parties. Gatsby wanted her to love everything about it but he had a feeling she didn’t. At the end of the chapter we see a conversation between Nick and Gatsby, he explains to Nick how he wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him and for her to go off with how they were going to five years ago. Fitzgerald uses time as a theme to alter the way love is perceived.

Time is a main theme in The Great Gatsby and is brought up a lot when Gatsby talks about Daisy and their past together. A significant place where the theme of time is brought is when Nick says the Gatsby “You can’t repeat the past.”(page 110) and Gatsby’s response to him is “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”(page 110). Gatsby is stuck in this mindset that he can change everything back to how it used to be with him and Daisy he even says to Nick “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before.”(page 110). Nick even says that Gatsby’s life had been disordered and confused since he hasn’t
To Gatsby time is such an important factor to him because he has none of it to waste. When he is talking to Nick about Daisy we get that time is very important because he wasted it when he first tried to be with Daisy. Now all he thinks about is the time he has left and how he needs Daisy before everything is too late. But you can’t repeat what you had in the and Gatsby is stuck in the past and not living in the present. Time is an important theme of The Great Gatsby because is shows how people's views can change so much depending on time. Gatsby vision of love for Daisy is affected by this time because he's so focused on how she was and things were with them in the past. He’s not thinking about what's really going on with her in her life and who’s become since they first were