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Related Characters: Nick Carraway (speaker), Jay Gatsby,
Daisy Buchanan Related Themes: Related Symbols: Page Number: 180 Explanation and Analysis In the novel’s closing passage, Nick reWects on how Gatsby’s dogged pursuit of Daisy is similar to the dreams of early settlers landing on the American continent. He uses the comparison to both elevate and belittle Gatsby’s character. To introduce this idea, Nick Vrst describes dissociating from the immediate surroundings: “the inessential houses began to melt away,” distancing him from the environment of wealth and commodities. This is a startling narrative technique, considering how Nick had earlier denied to Gatsby the potential of returning to the past: here he seems to do just that, indicating that storytelling and reWection may achieve this end far more effectively than Gatsby’s purchase of a mansion on West Egg. Next, he uses this trick of time to equate the “green breast of the new world” seen by settlers in America to “Daisy’s light” seen by Gatsby. In different ways, they represent an almost-reached, yet still- differed goal. This parallel elevates Gatsby’s dreams to an epic stature—for they are deemed equal in aspiration to those who have "discovered" this very land. Yet the passage also renders Gatsby less unique by pointing out how traditional and ancient his aspirations are. Nick stresses this second perspective when he observes that Gatsby’s dream was “already behind him,” indicating that the destination has already been reached. This “behind” could refer to Gatsby’s previous relationship with Daisy, or his hometown to the West—but also the symbolic “behind” of those Dutch sailors. Fitzgerald seems to imply that America as “the republic” already holds the aspiration that Gatsby so Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com ©2020 LitCharts LLC v.007 www.LitCharts.com Page 10 desperately seeks—and that his attempts to search for fulVllment in new domains is pointless. 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 then one Vne morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Download 0.5 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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