Examples Of The Past In The Great Gatsby

The past is what creates the present, it is the reason why things happen now. Basically without the past there is absolutely no present. The past is what creates who we are and what we now are. Just like in The Great Gatsby all of the characters went through some phase in their lives that made them who they were at the end of the book. Gatsby, the main character for example, had gone through many somewhat unfortunate events before he was able to become rich and known by some people. When he was young he was very poor and came from a long history of poor people. As he grew older he met Daisy and fell deeply in love with her months before he had to leave for World War 1. Before he left for the war, Daisy had said that she would wait for him