I was thinking about the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. The basic premise is so simple, and its motif is so universal that examples can be found all over the world. I could try to list examples but such a list would forever be insufficient. His descent into the underworld to rescue his wife, but failure to do so can merely be convenient shorthand for an individual trying to "make things the way they were before".
Of course it didn't work out for him. Eurydice had experienced death and as a result, if he had been capable of seeing so he should have, was changed fundamentally. He looked back at her, and of course she had to stay in the underworld because that had become her place. Jay Gatsby tried to do the same thing with Daisy Buchanan, it didn't work out for him. His optimism may have been admirable but it also made him incapable of acceptance.
What is this all about anyways, trying to hold onto something and becoming hurt as a result?
Just a thematic concept I've been thinking about lately.
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