"The Great Gatsby" by Charles Dickens

A friend of mine once asked, "We all want to fall in love. Why?" After going over it in my mind, my response is this, because to experience love makes one feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, or an afternoon, but how long it lasts does not diminish its value, "because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives" (Hermanson). In The Great Gatsby, memories take over a man's mind and he builds his life around the…