Ocean Avenue- Yellow Card
Move Along- All American Rejects
Dirty Little Secret- All American Rejects
Mr. Brightside- The Killers
Green Light- John Legend
40oz to Freedom- Sublime
Wasting My Minutes- Kid Cudi
Can’t Tell Me Nothin- Kanye West
Santeria- Sublime
Past My Shades- B.o.B
First Date- blink 182
Ocean Avenue- Yellow Card
Jay Gatsby wants to get Daisy back so he tries to get as close to her as possible. He buys a house on the other side of the lake that Daisy lives on. He even changes how he is as a person to try to fit how she wants him to be. Daisy did not stay with him when they first dated because he was not rich. He has spent his whole life trying to make money and a name for himself. Gatsby longs to be with Daisy and when Nick first meets him, Gatsby does something strange that Nick does not quite understand. Gatsby “stretched out his arms forward toward the dark water in a curious way… [Towards] a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (Page 20). This dock ends up being Daisy’s dock. The boy in the music video for the song is trying to find his old girlfriend and he says that if he could be with her “things would get better.” He is trying to have things be how they used to be and wants to relive their old memories. Gatsby tries to do this throughout the whole story. He does not understand that he cannot go back to how things once were.
Move Along- All American Rejects
This song talks about how if you feel like everything is against you and your back is against the wall there are other ways of handling your problems than to kill yourself. The song says “And even when your hope is gone, move along, like I told you to.” If Wilson would have heard this song, he might have gone about getting revenge for Myrtle’s death in a different way. Wilson probably thought that killing Gatsby and then commuting suicide was the only solution to his problems. “It was after we started with Gatsby’s...