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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.

GG3

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.