The Time of Gatsby's Life: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody seems to have an obsession with time. People are always looking for a way to travel in time, or change what happened previously in time. Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", is one of these people. The whole novel is centered on the idea of the past, present and future. References to time occur all throughout the book, in varying forms, some hardly noticeable. Altogether, including compound words, the word "time" …

…that, in the end, brought only his death. Works Cited: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1925 Randall, Dale B. J. "The 'Seer' and 'Seen' Themes in Gatsby and Some of Their Parallels in <Tab/>Eliot and Wright." Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Jul., 1964), pp. 51-63. Stallman, Robert Wooster. "Conrad and The Great Gatsby" Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 1, <Tab/>No. 1. (Apr., 1955), pp. 5-12.