"Love is Blindness" by Jack White

Since I am a huge lover of this book and music, I decided for my free blog post that I would write about how in the death scene of Myrtle they use the song known as "Love is Blindness" by Jack White.

Personally, I found it very interesting how the whole scene played out, but the thing that I focused on the most was the song, and it's lyrics. I noticed how the song can connect to how Myrtle ran towards the car. The fact that Myrtle is under the impression that its Tom she thinks that he will stop at that speed. I know it wasn't Tom, and most people would think that if it were Tom that he would stop because they are in love. However, I strongly disagree because at that speed it is very hard and difficult to stop your car. Just because they are in love doesn't mean that it will magically make them be together and stop the car. Somehow, I believe that this is how everyone is blinded when it comes to love. 

Also, how Gatsby believed he could repeat the past simply because he was in love with Daisy. It shows how Gatsby is so blinded by the thought of his love for Daisy that he misses the fact that he can't really repeat those moments in his life. 

The song strongly related to the scene and even though it's not jazz music, or music from the 20s, they use the appropriate type of music for this scene.   

Choose any topic of interest that we have discussed in class (or not discussed, if you have a new one) in relation to The Great Gatsby and explore it further. Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

An idea/discussion that really interests me is the idea of whether if someone can repeat the past. In page 85, it says "I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t re-peat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” Gatsby believes that you can repeat the past, and I agree with him. I just disagree with that situation; I think that he couldn't repeat that part of his past. I think that if an event is very vague and without a lot of detail, it is possible to repeat that event. In the book towards the end, it states something similar which is the last sentence of the book, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back cease-lessly into the past." It states that we will always be reminded about our past.