Time in The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays

Time in The Great Gatsby        Time is an idea described in different periods and aspects, for example philosophical, psychological, physical and biological.  This sentence flows evenly but is broken into the knightly, present and future.  Since we only live in the present forever planning for our futures and dreams, when we try to live in the past it restricts our future.  throughout Fitzgeralds novel, Gatsby wasted time and his life for a single dream, and it was his illusion of his ideal future that made time a key dimension in his life.        Gatsby suffers from past memories of Daisy and tries to relive the relationship and in the process Gatsby was murdered.  Nick says, Almost five years  There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - non through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.  Gatsbys idealistic view of Daisy was, she was of pure and perfective form and after he kisses her, his ideal perfect relationship starts to decay,  ...and the incarnation was complete.  The incarnation meaning Daisy cannot be ideally perfect anymore now that Gatsbys with her. Daisy is not pure and perfect like Gatsby horizon she was in the past. From Gatsbys illusions of the past preoccupying all his thoughts, he forgets about the key dimension he exists in which is the present.        Although Gatsby was persistent on reliving the past, Gatsby vaguely lived for the present. This is apparent when he cancels his biology by leaving home, changing his name, and leaving his heritage behind which was not done by following the past.  In the past Jay Gatsby made, ...a platonic inclination of himself.  What Nick said about Gatsbys platonic theory of himself was that Gatsby ...was a son of God.  From Jay Gatsbys theory he makes a ideal conception of himself, of which he projects him self into the future. in the long run Gatsby is left with the choices to ...suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder, or kiss Daisy and ...his look would never romp again like the mind of God.  In Gatsbys choices he is to climb the ladder to God which represents Gatsbys future or choose Daisy and choose the past.