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My reaction to this play was very compelling; willy is a very complex character to me, and Willy did not deserve to die in the play. Willy was very much compelled to kill himself, and I think that willy felt like there was no way out of the stress and pain of everyday life. In the play willy says, "I suppose that's my fault". In my opinion willy said that because he feels like it's his fault that biff failed math and he ended up taking it out on himself. Willy knew his emotional state was going down the drain and he knew there was nothing he could do about it. So, willy ended up killing himself. Willy basically realized that he could not handle his mental state and all the stress.

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In the book, one of the main themes is closure. Everybody needs to have closure with the one person you have loved for so long. This is the same for Gatsby. After the argument with Tom and daisy, Gatsby finally realized that his dream would not happen and he finally has closure with her, "he must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what grotesque thing a rose and is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass". To me, everybody needs to have closure and even for me, I have had my great deal of closure. This whole closure thing reminds me of when my best friend died. After the funeral I realized that what I had told him several days before meant a lot and it finally came to me that he knew something was going to happen, and I feel like I finally had closure with him because I told him what I needed to say. when Gatsby was in the pool he knew that reality had set in; "a new world, without material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees". This quote shows that reality has finally set in for him and it is hitting him like a brick in the face.

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In my opinion I think that you cannot change the past, even if you have had a past with somebody as soon as that ends, it will never be the same. It happens a lot of the time with people, but sometimes it doesn't always work out.  I think this is the same with Gatsby and Daisy because Gatsby wants to regain this lost feeling he has for daisy but in reality, I think the feelings aren't really there. He just wants the feeling back, to regain it. In the book Gatsby says, "can't repeat the past, why of course you can". This quote greatly shows that Gatsby wants everything to be like it once was. Over time, people change and so do their feelings for that person; I think that Daisy's feeling are sort of mixed because she is married to Tom, and also she has a kid. The ideas for the feelings are there but in reality,  I think that the feelings are just for closure. Gatsby is stuck in the past and he feels like he needs to have it back.

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I think that Gatsby kind of went too far in order to see Daisy because it really is kind of creepy that he got a house across the bay from her. But, in a way it is romantic because he would do anything for the one he loves; "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay". I can relate this to my own personal experience; My friend joey that died loved me with all his heart and I loved him to..even though he did not have any money, he would just do the simple things to show me that he cared, and we did everything for each other. Gatsby cares about Daisy so much and he does not want to let her go.

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In the Great Gastby, the author is using the theme of relationships in the first two chapters. I think the author is saying that relationships do not always work out, and sometimes people just use you for shit in relationships. This is the case with Myrtle because she says in the second chapter "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman, I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe". Myrtle is cheating on her husband because he does not have money plus she is only with tom for sex. In my opinion, i think this relates to one of my friends situations because she is only with her boyfriend for the money, but on the other hand they fight all the time. Overall, this shows that some relationships are not meant to be and sometimes, people are only together with that person to give them stuff.

Harry is a very complex characer because he seemed to be very hesitant and scared about pursuing his dreams, and that is where the theme of later plays in this story. We need to pursue our dreams now before it is too late. The main character Harry is like me because sometimes I am afraid to do the things i like, because i'm afraid i will mess up and i get very hesitant about pursuing my dreams. ''Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well". harry never got to pursue his dreams because of fear, and because other things got in the way, and sometimes those things take us off track; "he had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would". sometimes as people, we do not want to pursue our dreams because we are afraid that we will not like it or sometimes it deteriorates us because of change. This was in Harry's case; "but he would never do it, because each day of not writing of comfort of being that which he despised". Harry despised what he had become and he was ashamed that he did not get the chance to pursue his dreams.