Time in The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays

Time in The Great Gatsby        Time is an idea depict in different periods and aspects, for example philosophical, psychological, physical and biological.  This time flows evenly still is broken into the knightly, present and time to come.  Since we only live in the present endlessly 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 deceit 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 fiver years  There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled brusk of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.  Gatsbys idealistic view of Daisy was, she was of nice and perfect form and after he kisses her, his ideal perfect relationship starts to decay,  ...and the incarnation was complete.  The incarnation pith Daisy cannot be ideally perfect anymore now that Gatsbys with her. Daisy is not pure and perfect like Gatsby thought 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 divergence 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 conception of himself.  What Nick utter about Gatsbys platonic hypothesis of himself was that Gatsby ...was a son of God.  From Jay Gatsbys theory he makes a ideal conception of himself, of which he pr ojects himself into the future. Ultimately Gatsby is unexpended with the choices to ...suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder, or kiss Daisy and ...his learning ability 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.