The Great Gatsby himself, Jay, wants to reconnect with his love from the past, Daisy, even though she is married to Tom Buchanan. He fantasizes to Nick, “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” (110). The movie Midnight in Paris also deals with a similar theme of wanting to relive the past. The main character in Midnight in Paris, Gil, fantasizes about living in Paris in the 1920’s, a time that existed before he was born. “And just what era would you have preferred to live in, Miniver Cheevy?” asks Paul, a know-it-all friend of Gil’s fiance, Inez. Similar to the poem Miniver Cheevy, Gil wishes he could have been born in an earlier time period, having stated, “I was born in the wrong
The Great Gatsby himself, Jay, wants to reconnect with his love from the past, Daisy, even though she is married to Tom Buchanan. He fantasizes to Nick, “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” (110). The movie Midnight in Paris also deals with a similar theme of wanting to relive the past. The main character in Midnight in Paris, Gil, fantasizes about living in Paris in the 1920’s, a time that existed before he was born. “And just what era would you have preferred to live in, Miniver Cheevy?” asks Paul, a know-it-all friend of Gil’s fiance, Inez. Similar to the poem Miniver Cheevy, Gil wishes he could have been born in an earlier time period, having stated, “I was born in the wrong