Allison Frost 0104.07 English GG2 Heraclitus once stated, "Nothing endures but change". There is another well known saying that states practically the same thing; "The more things change, the more they stay the same". I suppose one could interpret these as change remaining a constant throughout time. This idea is illustrated well within the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Change within the book begins when Nick Carraway sets Daisy Buchanan up with Jay Gatsby, and Tom, her husband, finds out. Now, he realises, he's not the only one to have an affair. This transforms the dynamics of the relationship between Tom and Daisy, and allows Tom to become vindictive when dealing with issues of Gatsby. On the way back, Daisy, driving Gatsby's distinct yellow car, accidentally runs down Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Enraged, her husband George hunts for her killer, whom he learns from Tom was Jay Gatsby. Wilson journeys to Gatsby's mansion, where he finds the innocent man lounging in his pool and shoots both him and himself. Again the critical details of the book are altered, illustrating Heraclitus' point once more. After Gatsby's funeral (of which only Nick, Owl-Eyes, and Gatsby's servants attended), the narrator of this tale becomes disillusioned with the meretricious and superficial world of the Eggs and decides to go back home to the West. Nick decides perhaps that's where he's belonged all along, and believes that his return was inevitable, as depicted by his last sentence. His change of address concludes the book. Change has been discussed by many who, in arguing about whether it's positive or negative, may never resolve the debates. Perhaps if we saw change as something inevitable, something constant, as Fitzgerald had Nick Carraway view it, we could all just shut up about it.