I am going to be looking at the difference between Taylor Swift’s song “Happiness” and “The Great Gatsby”. They share a common theme of wanting to repeat the past, which is impossible. In “Happiness,” Taylor sings about a love that she has lost and how she misses and wants to go back to the time when they were together. In the same way, in “The Great Gatsby,” Gatsby is wanting to repeat the past and tries to recreate his love with Daisy Buchanan, but you can’t go back in time. Both Taylor in her song and Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby explore the idea that happiness is fleeting and that it is impossible to go back in time. In “Happiness,” Taylor sings, “I hope she’ll be a beautiful fool, Who takes my spot next to you”, just like how in “The Great Gatsby,” Daisy says “I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”. I like to think that Taylor did take this specifically from the Great Gatsby and used it to tell a story in her song. Many fans speculate that Taylor wrote this song about her friend Abigail who was in a seven year long relationship, in the song it says “I guess it’s the price I paid for seven years in Heaven”. Taylor was friends with Abigail from the beginning of her relationship with this guy all the way until the end. Actually Taylor released the song before Abigail told the public that her and her husband of seven years were getting a divorce and the fans went so crazy about wanting to know who the song was about that Abigail eventually just had to release that they were separating. The Great Gatsby is similar to this story in the way that its very messy and chaotic. In conclusion, Happiness by Taylor Swift and The Great Gatsby both have similar themes and Taylor took many things from the Great Gatsby for this song.