Analysis Of The Echo That Comes From Fitzgerald

Gatsby is a character that seems to be moving towards a bright future, where Daisy a girl who loved Gatsby will be in the picture again. Again, Gatsby can’t help what happened in the past, and wants the future to be only filled with the nostalgic feeling of the past. Gatsby’s dream is Daisy, but that dream is a sort of after image of what Daisy really is. Nick comments in chapter five how Gatsby’s view of Daisy was only a, “colossal vitality of his illusion.” Gatsby isn’t in love with Daisy in the present, nor is he in love with the thought of creating new memories with Daisy as they live together. Gatsby has created an illusion of what he expects Daisy to be like. Ironically, in the same chapter Gatsby begins to lean his head back and break Nick’s clock when he sees Daisy sitting their. Gatsby tries to fix the clock with his, “trembling fingers, and set it back in place.” This scene symbolizes how Gatsby is trying to go back in time, or in this case fix the time that he has missed with Daisy in order to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. This dream of trying to go back to the past isn’t new, the dream of returning to a simpler time where things aren't as complicated is common with people remembering the nostalgic

This was not how the plan was supposed to go and it causes him to have anxiety, “But when anxiety becomes excessive, is not appropriate for the situation, or lasts a long time, it can get in the way of your everyday activities and may interfere with how you get along with others” (Tennov 122). This sets Gatsby off as he needed to have her remember, and go back to how he knew her to be. He becomes more frantic as time goes on and continually pushes her to the limit with asking her to leave Tom. Nick, his levelheaded friend realizes his motive and says, ”You can 't repeat the past," Gatsby replies, "Why of course you can” (Fitzgerald 117). This is part of the dilution that he has acquired, though his limerence for Daisy, that he can repeat what is now the past.

Gatsby cannot accept the truth that Daisy has married somebody else, and he wants to go back to the time when Daisy and he were together. Gatsby cannot move on with his life. Through knowing about Gatsby's past and how he escapes from it, Nick learns that one must live in the present and that the attempt to get back to the past is futile, hopeless, and impossible.

Gatsby’s goal for a part of his life was to become rich and be a better man in Daisy’s eyes. Now that Daisy could finally see what he had accomplished, Gatsby is in a daze, as if nothing that is happening is real. Next, he starts to think that the five years of dreaming and imagining of this day did not seem as great in reality. He had formed such an ideal of how Daisy would perform, that it did not seem to be living up to his dream.

      Gatsby's tragic flaw lies within his inability to see that the real and the ideal cannot coexist. Gatsby's ideal is Daisy. He sees her as perfect and worthy of all his affections and praise. In reality she is undeserving and through her actions, proves she is pathetic rather than honorable. When Daisy says "Sophisticated-God I'm sophisticated" (18), she contradicts who she really is. The reader sees irony here, knowing she is far from sophisticated, but superficial, selfish and pathetic. Gatsby's vision is based on his belief that the past can be repeated, "can't repeat the past? Why of course you can" (111)!  The disregard for reality is how Gatsby formulates his dream (with high expectations), and the belief that sufficient wealth can allow one to control his or her own fate. Gatsby believes youth and beauty can be recaptured if he can only make enough money. To become worthy of Daisy, Gatsby accumulates his wealth, so he can rewrite the past and Daisy will be his. He establishes an immense fortune to impress the great love of his life, Daisy, who can only be won with evidence of material success.  Over the five years in which Gatsby formulates this ideal, he envisions Daisy so perfect that he places her on a pedestal. As he attempts to make his ideal a reality things do not run as smoothly as he plans. Daisy can never live up to Gatsby's ideal, though

Gatsby has many issues of repeating his past instead of living in the present. A common

Another illusion that Gatsby holds is his conviction he can repeat the past. An example of this would be the way Gatsby had acted after returning from the war. He acted as if nothing had happened, and if he had not left. Gatsby states, “Can’t repeat the past, why of course you can!” Gatsby’s illusion of repeating the past runs very closely with his illusion of Daisy’s love. Gatsby believes that it would be perfectly normal and acceptable for Daisy to tell Tom that she had never loved him. He is completely motivated and determined

A major internal conflict in this novel is between Gatsby and his past. Gatsby’s desire and purpose to return the past time when he and Daisy might had a future together. Gatsby strongly believes that he can reiterate the past and when Nick is trying to explain him that he cannot do this he refuses to believe that he cannot repeat the past.

Jay Gatsby said “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” This simple quote, stated while speaking of his relationship with daisy encompasses his endless efforts in re kindling his past love. He is so invested in fighting for Daisy because he truly believes that the past can be brought back. As if there is no Tom, no child and no responsibilities. The past willingly leads us into the trap of ignorance, that we may return from journeys long and messy to find

Gatsby was convinced he could alter events from his past because the alternative of accepting his current reality was too difficult. In the beginning, Gatsby and Daisy were in love but were separated because Gatsby was drafted. However, Daisy did not patiently wait for his return

The book The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it’s a narrative told from the perspective of Nick Carraway. He tells the story of the tragic life of Jay Gatsby and talks about the society of the wealthy people with high social status. He talks about the conflict between the two huge power Tom and Gatsby, due to their similarity in their money and social status, while they compete for dominance and masculinity by fighting over Daisy. Through Nick’s narration and his close relationship with Gatsby, the readers realize that the motive behind everything that Gatsby does is to win back Daisy’s heart to repeat the past, the first time when he fell in love with Daisy.

Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is about a millionaire named Jay Gatsby, who attempts to win back his lost lover, Daisy Buchanan, by using immense demonstrations of wealth and throwing lavish parties to gain her attention. Gatsby and Daisy were once in love, but Gatsby was too poor to marry her so after earning a massive fortune for himself, he uses it in an attempt to win her back (Fitzgerald). Gatsby possesses a great deal of innocence in that he is ignorant to the fact that he is unable to turn back time and make things new with ambitious displays of success. When told told it is impossible to repeat the past, he replies “Can’t repeat the past?...why of course you can!” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby does not recognize how unrealistic his dreams are and how much he is tearing apart a marriage and the entire group’s relationship. As for experience, it is a major factor of Gatsby’s character. He has experienced so much in his life, including poverty, loss, war, opportunity, wealth, interaction with different people and more (Fitzgerald). Innocence is typically associated with a lack of experience, but this novel is peculiar because although Gatsby has experienced a great variety of things in his life, he is still naive to certain aspects of love and society. Gatsby’s fantastic experience is a very common subject in the story, as people are curious about how he obtained his great wealth, but in the end it is his innocence and ambition that causes the group to part and ultimately leads to Gatsby’s death

It is impossible to repeat the past simply because we cannot unseen or un-feel the way we once did in the past. Gatsby wanted Daisy to repeat the past with him because to him, she was his greatest accomplishment. He wanted to keep that feeling forever but time changes everything, and no matter how much time passes nothing is ever the same again. Gatsby had this vision that him and Daisy could live out their lives acting like nothing ever happened and that would have been fine with him but Daisy had moved onto loving a new man and also had a child.

Gatsby 's fundamental craving in this novel is to win Daisy again from Tom and to have her everything to him. Before he even meets Daisy, he effectively needed to end up well off in any capacity he can and carry on with an alternate life

Considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s surrounding the socially separated East and West Egg of New York on Long Island. The tension of the story is set between the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his former love interest Daisy Buchanan. As the witness to the drama, Nick Caraway puts into perspective the waste of life Gatsby is spending by stubbornly reaching out to Daisy in order to what was already lost. Perhaps Gatsby’s character is somewhat symbolic moral to the story; that the past is only a part of our lives that we cannot change, nor re-live, ever the same way. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the idea that living in the past only ruins one’s present way of living if all that they strive for is a romance that cannot be re-lived because people don’t always remain the same.