The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"'You can't repeat the past'" (Fitzgerald, 110). Though Gatsby seems to think you can. In a way I kind of want to sympathize for him considering he is in love with Daisy after all this time, but he cannot honestly expect her to just pack up and leave.
Now Gatsby and Nick are invited over to Tom and Daisy's home. We meet Pammy, their daughter, who is cared for by their nurse. (I had forgot the wealthy did that back then.) Her child is in the room for about a page of text. I think this may symbolize someone or something that is in a persons life, but is not permanent. People come and go, and things may be here one second, but gone the next.
Tom discovers the truth behind Gatsby and his wife. He starts to get angry. In the near future, everything is going to be out on the table. It has to happen sooner or later. The truth always prevails, and secrets never stay secrets.
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