Unfortunately, we cannot travel back to the past to change our actions, however, we can learn from it. Nonetheless, we tend to repeat the past or expect something from it that it cannot provide. The past is merely experiences one went through that one cannot forget. We delude ourselves that the past dictates our lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby provides a perfect example of one firm’s attachment to the past. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is a wealthy man that lives in luxury. He created his empire solely to impress an old love that he had to leave behind before World War I. His old love, however, is married, and she is with a man who inherited his money and has always liver a lavish life, unlike Gatsby. Gatsby’s neighbor,
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When one meets a beautiful person that one wants to impress, one tends to be a better person that meet the breathtaking person’s expectations. We want to be good enough for the person; therefore, we will fix the flaws we think will drive the person away. As soon as Gatsby laid his eyes on Daisy, he realized he wanted to be more than just a farm boy to blow Daisy away. After the war, Gatsby was not over his love, Daisy; therefore, he decides to do everything in his power to obtain her. However, time later he finds out that she is married. Nonetheless, this does not stop Gatsby in his journey to reunite with his gorgeous damsel. Out of respect for the relationship, if a woman bears a ring on her left hand, a man does not attempt to pursuit her because she is already taken. Gatsby, however, is so infatuated with Daisy, that he completely disregards the ring. He wants to repeat the past and go back to the days when Daisy and him were an item. Daisy is no saint either because she decides to have a fling with Gatsby behind her husbands back. This treacherous affair was not validated even though Daisy’s husband, Tom, was also taking part in an affair as well with a lower class woman. This unstable relationship depicts what the past will make a person
When one meets a beautiful person that one wants to impress, one tends to be a better person that meet the breathtaking person’s expectations. We want to be good enough for the person; therefore, we will fix the flaws we think will drive the person away. As soon as Gatsby laid his eyes on Daisy, he realized he wanted to be more than just a farm boy to blow Daisy away. After the war, Gatsby was not over his love, Daisy; therefore, he decides to do everything in his power to obtain her. However, time later he finds out that she is married. Nonetheless, this does not stop Gatsby in his journey to reunite with his gorgeous damsel. Out of respect for the relationship, if a woman bears a ring on her left hand, a man does not attempt to pursuit her because she is already taken. Gatsby, however, is so infatuated with Daisy, that he completely disregards the ring. He wants to repeat the past and go back to the days when Daisy and him were an item. Daisy is no saint either because she decides to have a fling with Gatsby behind her husbands back. This treacherous affair was not validated even though Daisy’s husband, Tom, was also taking part in an affair as well with a lower class woman. This unstable relationship depicts what the past will make a person