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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" Thomas Parke D'Invilliers Jay Gatsby went through most of his life striving for a new beginning, a chance to start over and succeed. He forced that aspect of life, into his own, by changing his identity. He was James Gatz a man who's unknown soul …

…that his dream was a thing in the past and was never again to be relived. Everyone looks at the world through their eyes which are effected by their beliefs, and wonder, if one day their dream will come true. No one can dream without a past to look back on. This causes us to be torn between the two. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Pg.189)