... be altered, the steady march of time and our need to move with it or risk being pulled down by our own inflexibility. In The Great Gatsby, the character of Jay Gatsby ignores this fundamental rule of human existence, choosing to live in a world of the past, created by his own memories, and ... avoid the changes of the present even as they cause his own demise. This character, through his thoughts and actions proves that the old axiom is true; you cannot go home again. Jay Gatsby, despite all his successes and the seemingly ... own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illus...

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