Gatsby Section: Book Reports
The past is behind you now, you must look straight ahead and see what is in your future. Gatsby did not want to look ahead he liked looking back better. Looking back into the past meant happiness, and looking forward meant confusion and sadness. Gatsby had worked so hard to fit Daisy´s standards for a husband. He believed he was now a man who fit these standards. He was still the same man she fell in love with years ago, but he was now a wealthy man. Gatsby new deep down inside that the past could never be repeated. You can never return to something that was wonderful, and have it be the same. He himself would never say the words because he did not want to believe that he dreamt an impossible dream. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that´s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning (Pg.189) This green light of Gatsby´s was an unknown part of the world to others. Nick knew it was something special to Gatsby. The special thing was the unknown. The green light which seemed so far away to begin with was now so close and so real. It was so close and real that he could almost reach out and touch it. Gatsby dies with out knowing if Daisy had fallen in love with him again. Was the time, effort, and money Gatsby put into himself and his surroundings worth it? If only Gatsby could have been sure of this before he died. He could have died happy knowing that his dream had come true or that his dream was a thing in the past and was never again to be relived. Everyone looks at the world through their eyes which are effected by their beliefs, and wonder, if one day their dream will come true. No one can dream without a past to look back on. This causes us to be torn between the two. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (Pg.189)
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