Jay Gatsby’s and Quentin Compson’s Obsession with the Past in The Great Gatsby and The Sound and the Fury Jay Gatsby from the The Great Gatsby and Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury share an obsession with the past. Both, Jay Gatsby and Quentin Compson feels like their lives are not fulfil, which causes them to live a dissatisfying life and obsess over women of their past. These two characters try to reconnect with their past in which they were more content. Jay Gatsby tries to recreate his life when he tries to convince his first love, Daisy Buchanan to leave her husband, Tom Buchanan and fall in love with him again. Likewise, Quentin Compson tries to reconstruct a time in his past; the time when his sister, Caddy was in his life.
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In The Great Gatsby, time doesn’t make sense to Gatsby; in result, he obsesses over the past, which causes him to feel that his life is displeasing without the most important woman apart of his life. Jay Gatsby lives a wealthy life which makes it seem like he wouldn’t be unhappy but he feels like his life is incomplete without Daisy Buchanan. “Lifestyles of the Fabulously Rich and Dissatisfied in The Great Gatsby” questions Gatsby’s happiness, the article says, “Jay Gatsby, the Man Himself. Is Gatsby happy? [. . .] [Gatsby is optimistic.] The problem with optimism, though, is that, rather than qualifying as happiness, it anticipates future happiness. Or, in Gatsby’s case, future …show more content…
Compson lives a dissatisfying live because without his sister, Caddy he cannot seem to function properly. In Gabriella’s analysis, she explains Quentin Compson’s and Caddy’s relationship, when she says:
Caddy is not technically his mother; she does serve as more of a mother figure to him than his actual mother does. Perhaps due to a lack of love or attention from Mrs. Compson and Caddy’s strong role in his life. [. . .] [Quentin] seems to see her as a happy part of his childhood or past that he wants to hold on to and try to relive” (Augusta
In The Great Gatsby, time doesn’t make sense to Gatsby; in result, he obsesses over the past, which causes him to feel that his life is displeasing without the most important woman apart of his life. Jay Gatsby lives a wealthy life which makes it seem like he wouldn’t be unhappy but he feels like his life is incomplete without Daisy Buchanan. “Lifestyles of the Fabulously Rich and Dissatisfied in The Great Gatsby” questions Gatsby’s happiness, the article says, “Jay Gatsby, the Man Himself. Is Gatsby happy? [. . .] [Gatsby is optimistic.] The problem with optimism, though, is that, rather than qualifying as happiness, it anticipates future happiness. Or, in Gatsby’s case, future …show more content…
Compson lives a dissatisfying live because without his sister, Caddy he cannot seem to function properly. In Gabriella’s analysis, she explains Quentin Compson’s and Caddy’s relationship, when she says:
Caddy is not technically his mother; she does serve as more of a mother figure to him than his actual mother does. Perhaps due to a lack of love or attention from Mrs. Compson and Caddy’s strong role in his life. [. . .] [Quentin] seems to see her as a happy part of his childhood or past that he wants to hold on to and try to relive” (Augusta