Past In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody’s past will always be what forms them what gives expression to their name. Most people will remember you by your name because they knew you from the past a past they lived with you. When people ask about you they think of your personality of what you were like in the past, of what gave character to your name. For example, Gatsby, his father remembers him as Jimmy Gatz because he was with him in his past, he knew all the goals he had for his future, and how he became the man he was because of that. His father knew he would be great he would be someone because of the hard worker he was, and that how he will remember his son. Not by Jay Gatsby the wealthy man, but by Jimmy Gatz his son who worked hard to strive for his goals and for a better future than what he would have if he stayed with his

“You can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can.” (110 This enduring quote from the famous novel The Great Gatsby by none other than F. Scott Fitzgerald stirs the mind and imagination in wonder of the very character who had uttered these words. Infamous Gatsby is the mysterious man behind the lavish and enthralling parties; a man who made his money and his image in that of a king. But, who is this mysterious man? How did he receive the great fortune of developing all of which he had possessed? He had it all, but we are on the outside looking in; did this man with everything really have nothing at all? If Jay Gatsby is the real person we see him to be, then James Gatz is nonexistent. The day that the world had gained Gatsby, it had

The 1920s is the decade in American history known as the “roaring twenties.” Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of life in the 1920s. Booming parties, prominence, fresh fashion trends, and the excess of alcohol are all aspects of life in the “roaring twenties.”

The past is an idea that develops memories, while also establishing goals for the future. A past molds one’s personality into its unique form, which lasts a lifetime. Thus, it holds an essential role in creating the goals humans possess. In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald bestows a lost, romantic past on Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the character of Nick Carraway to enhance the overarching theme of his novel: “the past can not be repeated”.

Understanding Gatsby’s past greatly helps the reader understand why Gatsby is protective of his real identity. Layng’s article concludes that “Fitzgerald's linking of his characters' personal histories with American history underscores that the past is an echo that, like sonar, measures the distance gained and lost by individuals and cultures” (Layng 93). Fitzgerald emphasizes that as someone gets further away from their past they lost themselves because of individuals and cultures. This is true in gatsby’s case because he loses his identity in the pursuit to live the Ameican Dream. Layng discusses how the Tom uses the past as a weapon against Gatsby to try to get his wife, Daisy, back.

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

My torah portion is Shemot 1:1-6:1 and you can find it on pages 346-359 in the Plaut Commentary. At the beginning it list a group of people who came with Jacob to Egypt. After a while the Israelites are still in Egypt. There is a new Pharaoh who didn’t know Jacob and the peace between the old Pharaoh and Jacob. As time goes on the Israelites are growing in population and the Pharaoh got worried that some day they will overthrow them. Because of his fear he enslaves them. Then Pharaoh went to the midwives and told them if any Israelite women gave birth to a boy they must kill it but they may let the girls live. A mother was afraid that her child was going be killed by the Egyptians so she put him in a basket down the nile river. After a rough trip down the river he flouted right near the Pharaoh's daughter. She decided to raise him as her own. The baby's sister watched the whole time and asked Pharaoh's Daughter if she wanted a Israelite to take care of the child. Pharaoh's Daughter said “yes” so she went to fetch the mother of the child. Pharaoh's Daughter decided to name him Moses.

Jay Gatsby’s background was very similar to that of Andrew Carnegie’s. Jay Gatsby, at the time referred to as “James Gatz”, was the son of two farmers in North Dakota. Similar to Carnegie, Gatsby started off very poor. Although there is suspicion of an inheritance granted to Gatsby in the beginning of the story, it is noted that his story is indeed based on the “rags to riches” motif. His disapproval with his parents’ social class is obvious. “I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” (Fitzgerald 98). Rather than accepting his parents’ guidance and values, Gatsby is primarily mentored by his employer,

There are some people in the world who grow up in tough spots, that grow to believe that this is all they will ever encounter and this is their destiny. They believe that they don’t have the ability to be someone great. Then there’s other people in the same situations who learn and do whatever it takes to advance and escape. Jay Gatsby, the main character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is apart of the crowd who wants and does end up advancing and escaping from his previous life. Jay Gatsby was successful in reinventing himself because he changes his entire persona, he gets rich and he does get the win Daisy over.

An Austrian physician by the name of Sigmund Freud, a well renowned psychologist, aside from his studies, was once rumored do have done enough cocaine to kill a baby horse. Other than his cocaine addiction he also developed the theory of Psychoanalysis, which in short means that he studied the longstanding difficulties in the ways that people think and feel about themselves, the world, and their relationships with others. Sigmund Freud’s ideals of psychoanalysis was translated to in a way where we are able to analyze media in all it’s shapes and forms. Psychoanalytic media analysis argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the characters within a movie, and the literary work is a manifestation of the Id, Super-Ego, and Ego. The text that I will analyze using the psychoanalytic media theory will be the film The Great Gatsby, originally a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I will be using Freud’s primary psychoanalytic theory of the ID, Ego, and Super-Ego to analyze the movie The Great Gatsby, and also analyze the potential cultural and societal impacts of an authors use of psychoanalytic theory.

The past tense can affect someone very much, and it makes it hard for a person to move on for their present and future. It can be really significant for them, they keep on bringing the past back in their lives, and do everything to bring it back. In this case, is presented by Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald constantly makes Gatsby to bring his past with Daisy Buchanan, and for her is the reason why Jay Gatsby became a wealthy person.

How came people did not respect Fitzgerald’s writing in the twentieth century, but why people are respecting and valuing Fitzgerald work in the twenty-first century? Fitzgerald had a hard time to profiting from his writing, but he was not successful after his first novel. There are three major point of this essay are: the background history of Fitzgerald life, the comparisons between Fitzgerald and the Gatsby from his number one book in America The Great Gatsby, and the Fitzgerald got influences of behind the writing and being a writer. From childhood to adulthood, Fitzgerald faced many good and bad experiences that inspired him to achieve his own American dream in a short amount of time.

Fitzgerald reveals the detrimental impacts of living in the past, through the character James Gatz and his numerous flashbacks responsible for Gatz’s development into the character of Jay Gatsby. Gatz invented the character of Gatsby, providing a fallacious back-story, in order to convince himself and hopefully Daisy that there remains a possibility of love despite their difference in economic backgrounds. Nick reveals, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this (Platonic) conception he was faithful to the end” (132). Gatsby changed his past, hoping to change the outcome of his future happiness. Fitzgerald reveals Gatsby’s construed misconception of himself through flashbacks in order to emphasize the effect the past has on the present.

1. Discuss how the ‘characteristics of the learner’ influenced your acquisition of the skill of juggling?

William Shakespeare is most arguably known for the characters portrayed in his work and the fact that his plays provide not only captivating plots, but insights to human nature, as well. This essence is most famously captured in Macbeth, a tale that turns into a tragedy because of the slow downward spiral of the main character, for which it is named. Shakespeare retains the significant ability to craft stories that surpass time and engage the emotions of the reader. In the case of Macbeth, Shakespeare has crafted a character that switches from protagonist to antagonist, but still remains relatable. Even when the main character becomes a murderer, his personality and monologue causes readers to feel for him emotionally. It is the reason why there is such a debate surrounding the issue of what caused Macbeth’s transformation. (Delahoyde, “Macbeth”)