Gatsby Pre-Write

" So we beat on, boats against the currents, borne ceaselessly into the past"
This line embodies the thematic conflict in The Great Gatsby because Gatsby mainly focuses n one thing which is getting Daisy back.
He and Daisy had a thing going on when he left to the war and he wishes that things would be just as they were before he left.
He cant accept the fact that things wont be like they were before but he is desperate to get her back like he once had her in the past.
Things have changed after Gatsby and Daisy were separated, Daisy has a baby, shes married to a guy named Tom, and her personality has changed since then, she seems as if she doesn't care about anything surrounding her not even her own baby.
Gatsby bought a mansion from where he can see the house Daisy lives in and he throws giant parties to try and draw her attention.
But before in the past Gatsby didn't have all the money he has right now and he thinks he can do anything with it including getting Daisy back and making everything how it used to be in the past.
That is the only thing he becomes obsessed with, he is blinded by the past and he doesn't see that Daisy doesn't put the same effort into making things the same but he is still blinded and he even takes the blame is a murder that Daisy committed.