The great gatsby article correlation

 The article can be found here http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f274037d-8551-49ae-8e0a-60f4af7ff739%40sessionmgr4003&vid=9&hid=4114

The article "Letting go of the past helps us prepare for the future" discuses how change will happen randomly in our lives and we must be willing to let things flow how they are intended.  While resisting change may work out in the end, it tends to be detrimental to our physical and mental health, which is why we should simply accept whatever change comes and adapt to it.

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The article correlates to The Great Gatsby because Gatsby is a direct example of what happens when we won't let go of the past.  He comes back from the war thinking everything will be the same as when he left, even when faced with evidence that things have changed.  He tries to relive the past by "[coming] back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and [making] a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay"(Fitzgerald 152).   He spends the next 5 years dreaming about Daisy and seems to prove the point that "Seeking comfort in what once was may not be a fatal flaw, but finding shelter from our present reality within the confines of the past will never allow us to reach our full potential"(Smith 1).  By going to Louisville, Gatsby is attempting to shelter himself from reality but ultimately he will not find relief in the shelter of the past.