Four o’clock
While reading this novel I’ve come to notice that A lot of things seems to happens around 4 o’clock. In fact Fitzgerald uses the numbers 4 a lot. When Gatsby and Daisy reunite, it was four years after they last saw each other. When Gatsby has tea with Daisy, it’s just before 4 o’clock. Gatsby life even ends at 4 o’clock. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explains the delicacy of time.
Throughout this novel Jay Gatsby is in loved with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy has left him for Tom buchanan and didn’t see Gatsby for Four years. Gatsby has spent the past four years trying to get Daisy and now that he has her attention he is trying to erase the past four years. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can”(110). Gatsby is demanding something that is physically impossible. But Gatsby believe it is indeed possible so he spends the majority of his time trying to erase time. Fitzgerald places many other things in this story to represent how much pressure Gatsby puts on time. …show more content…
Gatsby was nervously leaning against the clock when he accidentally knock it down. Then Gatsby quickly catches it before it smashes into pieces. Nick says “I think we all believed for a moment that it has smashed in pieces on the floor”(87). Throughout this novel Gatsby has had trouble with time. He was adding a lot of pressure on the clock. So the clock started to fall so fast that it seem to be gone already but then Gatsby caught the clock. Mr. Gatsby is living life that going to end fast, If he keeps adding this pressure on it. Time could not support the demands of Gatsby. He can knock down the clock so many times before it
While reading this novel I’ve come to notice that A lot of things seems to happens around 4 o’clock. In fact Fitzgerald uses the numbers 4 a lot. When Gatsby and Daisy reunite, it was four years after they last saw each other. When Gatsby has tea with Daisy, it’s just before 4 o’clock. Gatsby life even ends at 4 o’clock. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explains the delicacy of time.
Throughout this novel Jay Gatsby is in loved with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy has left him for Tom buchanan and didn’t see Gatsby for Four years. Gatsby has spent the past four years trying to get Daisy and now that he has her attention he is trying to erase the past four years. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can”(110). Gatsby is demanding something that is physically impossible. But Gatsby believe it is indeed possible so he spends the majority of his time trying to erase time. Fitzgerald places many other things in this story to represent how much pressure Gatsby puts on time. …show more content…
Gatsby was nervously leaning against the clock when he accidentally knock it down. Then Gatsby quickly catches it before it smashes into pieces. Nick says “I think we all believed for a moment that it has smashed in pieces on the floor”(87). Throughout this novel Gatsby has had trouble with time. He was adding a lot of pressure on the clock. So the clock started to fall so fast that it seem to be gone already but then Gatsby caught the clock. Mr. Gatsby is living life that going to end fast, If he keeps adding this pressure on it. Time could not support the demands of Gatsby. He can knock down the clock so many times before it