How Does The Present Memory In The Great Gatsby

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Ever feel happy or depressed when you think about the past? I’m the type of guy who thinks about my past memories quite often. It is mainly good memories, but it doesn't mean I don’t think about my bad memories from the past. The past is a part we can never experience again, but changing the past can lead to horrible results.The past can contain beautiful or horrific moments of your life. For example, A kid remembers the good memories of their childhood friend before their friend changed into a jerk. The child would want their friend back to their old self.I just lost a friend not too long ago, yet I know I can’t go backward. Like Gatsby wanting Daisy to have her old personality and wanting love from her. In the novel “The Great Gatsby “ by F.Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby can’t accept the past due to Daisy’s change personality, which makes him insecure, obsessive, and delusional.
Gatsby gets insecure by seeing how Daisy is no longer interest in him and she rather have someone that it is in the top class. ”After that she didn’t play around with the soldier anymore, but only with a few flat-footed, short young men in town, who couldn’t get into the army at all.”(Pg 75) So it shows she lost interest in soldiers, which gatsby was a soldier at that time and was a low class. “Daisy was popular in
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They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation.”(Pg 77) She wanted to be rich and wants to keep the reputation in the social class, which Gatsby can’t really offer. “In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” (Pg 75) With Tom, She could get so much money and jewels due to Tom being naturally

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