Examples Of Time In The Great Gatsby

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby, attempts to recapture his past with his once “love of his life”: Daisy Buchanan. In this novel, the idea of time is described in multiple aspects. Time, one would say, is ever flowing like a wave: rising into form, proceeding to crashing into a white fizzing foam, not stopping for anything in its path. Like a wave, time has many stages like the past, present, and future. As people we are told to live in the moment and dwell in the present as we prepare for what lies ahead: our hopes and dreams in the future. However when one resides to live in the past, it puts up a barrier for the future, and that is what happens to Jay Gatsby. On all accounts in the story, Gatsby merely wastes the time in his life pursuing to live a dream, and it was the
As a result, Gatsby basically photoshops his identity. It is portrayed when Gatsby ran away from home, he changed his name, and abandoned his heritage. In the past Jay Gatsby, "sprang from his platonic conception about himself". With what Nick had mentioned about Gatsby's own platonic impression of himself was that Jay Gatsby "...was a son of God". With Gatsby’s theory, he himself makes an ideal conception of himself, in which he late proposes for the future. With Gatsby’s decision to climb "the ladder" to God in which gives an illustration of Gatsby's future, he had to decide on whether he would move forward into the future and climb the ladder or choose Daisy and accept the past. Because of Gatsby’s illusion that his past could very well form to be his future, he relinquishes his past ideal interpretation of himself by choosing to no longer have himself think like the "mind of God" (Fitzgerald 119). Thus, Gatsby strives to compose his future coming from whatever is left from the present although he was ultimately left behind and lost in the