Jay Gatsby Songs

If Jay Gatsby were to have a playlist, his top three songs would be “A Drop In The Ocean” by Ron Pope, “I Won’t Give Up On Us” by Jason Mraz, and “Everything I Do” by Bryan Adams. In a “A Drop In The Ocean”, the man is singing about truly loving a woman and hoping they might end up together. In the lyrics he claims “if you don’t love me pretend...cause you are my heaven”. There is an obvious connection here because Gatsby has always seen Daisy as his everything, his “heaven”, his green light. In the start of their relationship, Gatsby admits to have let “her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself-that he was fully able to take care of her” (Fitzgerald 149). Gatsby knew that if Daisy had been aware of the truth about …show more content…
Gatsby can relate to “I Won’t Give Up On Us” because the song is about a man who cannot let go of his love for a woman. In the lyrics, the man in the song states “I won’t give up on us...I’m giving you all my love”. Although it has been years since Gatsby and Daisy have been together, he still cannot seem to let go of the past. When Nick tells Gatsby there is no way he can fix the past, Gatsby replies incredulously “Why of course you can!” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby is determined on keeping a grasp on the past, he believes that if he holds long enough to it, he and Daisy will pick up where they left off. Additionally, Gatsby can also relate to “Everything I Do” because it describes Gatsby’s experience in life as he tries to impress Daisy with everything he does. During Gatsby’s meeting with Daisy at Nick’s house, he invites her over to his mansion and reevaluates “everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (Fitzgerald 91). Everything he has done so far with his money was to attract Daisy, the only reason he bought his house is because it was across the bay from