Recreating the past will only bring pain and bad luck. Leave what happened long ago where it is and create a new future and make this new life what you want. If only Gatsby believed it. Daisy knew this was true and Nick also knew that reliving the past would never truly lead to happiness. Gatsby pushed his ideals onto Daisy and made her do something she doesn't want to do. Gatsby wants to go back five years and relive this life while Daisy just wants to create a new one. The uncertainties of the past are no reason to fix a current situation in an individual's life. The basis of the future is what is created in the present. The future is not created in the memories of previous days, the future cannot be the same as the past. The future is the life of an individual, the present reflects how the individual feels now and not how he felt five years ago. Using what has already happened to change the future will never end well, and people who try to use memories to fix the present will only dig their own graves. Gatsby digs and digs slowly as he tries to win over Daisy and even when he does, it will take him nothing less than to go back five years and start