The Orgastic Future Ahead of Us

The most beautiful passage that occurred in this novel was the fabulous ending. The ending of the novel sums up the story's main idea and theme simplistically. "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 one fine morning----So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"(FItzgerald 189). There is a significant tie between the past and the dreams of the future. Humans constantly try to achieve goals and strive for better purposes by trying to relive or recreate the past in the present. The past is the past and people have to understand that when living in the present, you've got to think about the now and later, not the past. The characters in this novel, like Gatsby, are so attached to the good times in the past that he cannot move a step forward in life. His mind is stuck in the past and he is literally like a boat stuck with currents moving against him. Gatsby spent all his life trying to bring the past back into his present life to be with Daisy but didn't get anywhere in approaching his goal. The past events in one's life stays in one's mind throughout their period of a lifetime but people need to learn to move away from the past and make it just a part of their memories. Living in the present and deciding what to do with one's life is more important than being mentally stuck in past moments. If Gatsby lived out of his past mind, he would've been able to live a calm and a non-corrupted life.