Great Gatsby

“Time and Pressure”

In the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” the inmate Red says, “Geology is the study of pressure and time, that’s all it takes really Pressure and time.” The story The Great Gatsby, likewise, is a story of time and pressure. The main character of the book, James Gatz, better known as Jay Gatsby, constantly has pressure on him, through out the book. Much of this pressure is self-imposed, Jay Gatsby feels the pressure to recreate the past and uses as much time as it takes. In the book The Great Gatsby, the main character Jay Gatsby, is a symbol of time and pressure through his will to succeed and in his pursuit of Daisy.

Jay Gatsby shows that he uses pressure and time to succeed in his life and to make himself rich and powerful. One way you see the use of pressure and time by Jay Gatsby is when he was a helper on Dan Cody’s yacht. That yacht represented everything good and wonderful in the world to the young James Gatz, who promises...