You Change

At first I had no doubt in my mind that I hadn’t understood a word this blog was saying. But interestingly enough I re-read the passage, maybe irony, since the blog stated just a bit about that in the beginning. It was then when I realized I had actually understood the post the first time, just that I thought it would be about something else.

So basically the writer is telling us all she learned and saw in The Great Gatsby the third time she read it.

I know this blog was intended for us to understand completely the idea of re-reading things, and how each time we read something it helps us understand it better. But this time there was a different idea too, I had heard it before, but this time it really made sense, “the works stays the same; it’s we who change”.

Just a couple seconds after I read this I remembered about something my father had told me (and repeats it almost once a week) about Ernest Hemingway’s book A Movable Feast. He says, and the book says, that no matter what, Paris never changes, it’s you who changes. I know that Paris is not a book, it’s a city (stating the obvious), but this is basically the same idea. You may have gone to Paris before, and when you come back it will be the same, but you won’t. Just as when you read The Great Gatsby, or any book, another time, you will be different, making the reading experience different.