In the book's final pages, Nick ties his
Nick's observation in the final line is a reflection on how, no matter how much wealth or success we may accumulate, we'll always chase after more in our futile efforts to “have it all.”
On his last night in West Egg before moving back to Minnesota, Nick walks over to Gatsby's empty mansion and erases an obscene word that someone has written on the steps. He sprawls out on the beach behind Gatsby's house and looks up.
Just as Gatsby "stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way," so we also promise ourselves "tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther." For all of us, life is all about constantly having to will ourselves into eternal optimism in the face of elusive dreams or challenging goals.
At chapter's end, Nick departs, leaving Gatsby and Daisy alone together. Chapter 5 introduces the heart of the matter: Gatsby's dream of Daisy. Through Nick, Gatsby is brought face-to-face with the fulfillment of a dream that he has pursued relentlessly for the past five years of his life.
How does Nick feel by the end of the night? He feels sick and disgusted with everything and everyone. He is upset that he didn't get to celebrate his birthday.
Nick somehow ends up at the train station, waiting for the 4 am train to get back to West Egg. One interpretation of Nick going home with the photographer is that Nick is actually gay.
Last lines teach us lessons, give us memorable images, and provide the note that carries the reader away from the story and back into his or her world. If ever there were a place to make every word count, your last line is it.
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
As Nick explains on the novel's final page, Gatsby spent years hoping for a happy future with Daisy, but this future always receded into the distance. Nick claims that Gatsby's hopes for the future were elusive because they didn't relate to the future at all.
The purpose of Nick's last meeting with Jordan was to end the relationship in a responsible and dignified manner. He could not leave town like Tom and Daisy because that would have been irresponsible.
In both book and movie, Gatsby is waiting for a phone call from Daisy, but in the film, Nick calls, and Gatsby gets out of the pool when he hears the phone ring. He's then shot, and he dies believing that Daisy was going to ditch Tom and go way with him.
Nick is struck by the bitter injustice of Gatsby's solitary death. Despite all the people who found their way to Gatsby's parties, not one, with the exception of a man known only as "Owl Eyes," bothered to make an appearance at his funeral (and he only made it to the gate after the services ended).
The last four paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up the events of the novel. Nick reflects on all that he has experienced with Gatsby and the rest of the characters, summarizing his experience in the final line: ''So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The most famous murder in American literature is that of the titular hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Jay Gatsby is shot to death in the swimming pool of his mansion by George Wilson, a gas-station owner who believes Gatsby to be the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife, Myrtle.
Gatsby's dream is now a “dead dream” because Daisy is unwilling to choose him over Tom so as a result “Jay Gatsby” had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice.” (Fitzgerald 148).
The Ending of The Great Gatsby – Unexpected, but Appropriate. again suggests success, perhaps portrayed by a happy ending. American Upper Classes and the folly of trying to repeat the past. perhaps the major theme of the novel – the Death of the American Dream.
First, you'll find the point in your story where things start to end, and then cut out anything you've written after that. Look at your different ending options, and then write out a beginning sentence for each one and just follow the mini outline of an ending you've written already.
Answer: The last sentence of the story suggests that the crocodile had realised his mistake. The crocodile would tell his wife how foolish he had been in listening to her, and thus losing a good friend and a supply of good fruits.
Page 45: Nick gets invited to a Gatsby party ○ An employee of Gatsby walks over to Nick's house and gives him a formal invitation to the party that evening. Nick says that he was one of the few people at the party who was actually invited; most people just showed up.
In that novel, Nick loves Gatsby, the erstwhile James Gatz of North Dakota, for his capacity to dream Jay Gatsby into being and for his willingness to risk it all for the love of a beautiful woman. In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn't just love Gatsby, he's in love with him.
Even if the reader interpreted the story so that Nick and Mr. McKee did not sleep together or even if Fitzgerald did not mean to imply as much, the fact that Mr. McKee and Nick are together in their underwear is not typical for two heterosexual men in the 1920s.
Nick realizes that Myrtle must have been hit by Gatsby and Daisy, driving back from the city in Gatsby's big yellow automobile. Tom thinks that Wilson will remember the yellow car from that afternoon. He also assumes that Gatsby was the driver.
At the end of chapter 7, Nick observes Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy after the accident. What conclusions does he reach? He sees that Gatsby will always have hope for Daisy. He sees that Tom and Daisy are planning on not telling anyone that Daisy killed Myrtle.