“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 — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning —— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” After reading The Great Gatsby I began to wonder what does all of this mean? For the life of me, I couldn’t seem to figure it out until now, I’m about to tell you what these words all mean by breaking it up and analyzing each sentence . “Gatsby believed in the green light.” I assume this means that Gatsby believed nothing would stop him from reliving the days with daisy after being apart all those years. Gatsby had more of an obsession about …show more content…
In Gatsby’s mind this was untrue and that if you wanted to recreate the past you could. He was willing to go to any lengths to get back what he so ever craved. “It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning ——” Fitzgerald had left the last part of that sentence blank because we don’t really know what could happen. Gatsby struggled to recreate the past, a past when he was with Daisy. He never loses hope, always charging ahead, “tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther". But as Gatsby charges forward, reaching for the green light, his dream becomes more difficult to attain like, "boats against the current." Gatsby nor anybody else can relive the past. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” There may have been some times where Gatsby felt he like giving up, but he “beat on” towards what he longed for. Gatsby thought about the past and I assume that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing