Significance Of The Past In The Great Gatsby

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” This is a quotation by the famous Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character’s attempt in trying to recapture the past is highly noticeable. Gatsby, who is the main character in the novel, tries extremely hard to bring back the past. His longing for something he knew years ago drives him to great lengths to get what he has always wanted. Gatsby finds great success in the bootlegging industry in order to gain all his fortune. His love for the Daisy Buchannan takes him to extreme lengths to do what is needed to win her back. In this novel, his desire to bring back the past creates a clear theme of longing and need to get what he wants. Gatsby
He imagined his life with her and she was the only one he had eyes for. He still believed she still loved him, even after five years and she was married to Tom Buchannan. The narrator, Daisy’s second cousin, Nick Carraway happens to live right next door to Jay Gatsby. Nick and Jordan attend one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties on the weekend and somehow Gatsby figured out that Jordan knew Daisy and asked her for a favor. Gatsby wanted Nick to ask Daisy over for tea and then he would just happen to be passing by. When Gatsby and Daisy saw each other for the first time in five years, it took them both by surprise. I feel as if Gatsby felt as if he could just come back into her life and start from right where they left off. What he did not realize was that she had a life, she had a husband, a marriage, and a daughter. How could she simply drop everything in her life just because someone from her past came back into her life? I feel in this situation, Gatsby was flawed and Daisy was being more
“As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby, and pulled his face down kissing him on the mouth. “You know I love you,” she murmured.” This is the action Daisy did as soon as Tom Buchannan left the room. Tom knew there was something going on between the two of them. He offered for everyone to go to New York. Gatsby and Daisy went in one car while Nick, Jordan, and Tom went in Gatsby car. After a conversation of Gatsby and the college he went too, Tom comes out with the question, “What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?” After this, it took everyone by surprise since this was said so bluntly. Daisy comes out and tells Tom to have some self control. Gatsby is just about to tell Tom the truth about himself and Daisy but Daisy stops him before another word could come