Blog #15

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conclusion anaylisis to chapter 9 

After Gatsby's death, Nick decided New York was in fact not quite his ideal place to live. Fed up with the shallow and snobby inhabitants of the land, he moved back to the midwest. Nick made an interesting point when he says,"Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some defiency in common which made us subtly unadatable to Eastern life,"(Fitzgerald, 176). Maybe it is possible that East was in fact the worst place for this crew to subside. It is clear that living there has most obviously caused chaos in all of their lives. Nick describes the West Egg as containing," a quality of distortion,"(Fitzgerlad, 176), which is a pretty accurate characterization of the pompous and superficial island. Things turn once again on the more depressing side when Nick returns to Gatsby house one last time before leaving for the Midwest. He strolls down to the beach and looks across the bay, reflecting upon the idea of the idea of the American dream. America was thought to be place where goals could be achieved and men could break unreachable barriors, but I feel that Nick (Fitzgerald really) has become more pesimistic after his time in New York. It is believed that success is achieved through time and practice, but Nick makes seem as if progess is a figment of our imgination due to our unwillingness to let go of the past."So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."(Fitzgerld, 180). Humans push themselves couragously into the future to better themselves and accomplish new heights, but our incapablility to release past leaves people unknowningly behind, already restrained in a progressionless whole.