Unrepeatable In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is a very creative writer and uses meaningful ideas in his work. In the novel The Great Gatsby, the author shows the love of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan as a recurring theme throughout the book. One of the strongest themes is how the past in unrepeatable. Gatsby and Daisy can not go back to how their love was earlier in their lives because it is impossible to replicate the pass exactly. Three strong arguments in which support past is unrepeatable are Gatsby and Daisy have had so much change throughout time away, the meaning of the green light, and the meaning behind Daisy admitting to love Tom. Fitzgerald wrote about how the past is unrepeatable because of how people and other circumstances change in life. Fitzgerald wrote in the book about how the past is unrepeatable is the green light across the lake at …show more content…
When Tom and Gatsby are having an argument about how Daisy never loved Jay. Daisy is telling Gatsby everything about the love that is still alive but Tom is in the room hearing all of this and Tom refuses to let Daisy admit feelings for Gatsby. “‘Oh, you want too much! She cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you isn’t that enough?’ She began to sob helplessly. ‘I did love him once-but I loved you too’”(Fitzgerald 132). This proves that the past cannot be repeated because no matter what Daisy or Tom may say to Gatsby there will always be doubt to either one since Daisy did admit to loving both of them at one point throughout time. Once Daisy says that in front of Gatsby he will never truly know if they were perhaps meant to be since Tom and her were in love even if it was only for a year. This also proves that Daisy is almost trapped by Tom and is too afraid to stand up against him even though deep down she knows she loves Jay. The words that Daisy says is a great example of why the past is unrepeatable throughout