Gatsby
Quote from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Despite all the obstacles standing in the way of Gatsby's American dream, Gatsby never succumbs to Nick's pessimistic disapproval of living in the past. Gatsby always retains a fragment of hope, an expectation that one day his dream would come true, that he would acquire the temptations he was never destined to have. For those individuals who bask in Gatsby's dream, they find themselves engrossed in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; their lives, mirroring the life of Gatsby's. For those individuals who yearn and strive for the dream of bliss, they find their own steadfast resilience mirrored in Gatsby's fabricated persona. Fitzgerald's theme- striving for the American dream, recreating the "perfect", flawless life, and finding comfort in the past- is reiterated in the quote, "to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms fatherÂ…and one fine morning---we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (qtd.......
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