Greek Gatsby Essay

Gatsby’s expectations of his relationship with Daisy are extremely high, and very unrealistic. In his relationship with Daisy, it seems that all he wants is for the last four years to be completely erased with a simple ‘I never loved you’ to Tom. He wants to have that same connection and bond that he had with her when they were much younger. Especially in this he is obsessive – he doesn’t seem to realise (…

…you could repeat the past. He concludes the novel, fittingly, by applying this to all of mankind – saying that every person deep down would like to repeat the past, and this is what takes us into the future. For humans, memory is selective and a lot of the time, the past is this beautiful thing, where we were so much happier. Deep down most people would like to live it over again, just like Gatsby.