Nostalgia In The Great Gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBY PASSAGE ANALYSIS ESSAY
Aparimita Tiwari period-4 prompt #2 The night before Nick left West egg, he looked over Gatsby’s house and its surrounding(comma rule 2A). He spoke of Gatsby’s deserted house and the stairs on which an obscene word was inscribed. The grass on Gatsby’s lawn was as long as the grass on his own. Nick wandered down to the beach and lay on the sand. It was late night and there were barely any lights, except for the shadow of a ferryboat. Nick looked over the water and thought of the Dutch travellers. Later he wondered what Gatsby might have thought when he picked the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He spoke of staying in New York on Saturday nights. He did this because Gatsby’s

In the last paragraph, the narrator used a metaphor. People were compared to boats. These boats were deterred from reaching the shore by ocean currents(time). This related to Gatsby’s case. The currents represented the memories which kept pulling him back into the past. He was unable to let go of his past memories and wanted to relive them. The narrator elucidated the inescapable power of the past. The use of connotations helps us gain understanding of the narrator’s feelings.

In the end, Nick decided to leave New York. He lamented Gatsby, but he learned a lot from what happened to him(comma rule1). He learned that people of the opulent society were self serving. They didn’t care about how much damage they caused. He also realized that Gatsby’s dream was like the American dream which collapsed. The American dream stands for the independence of a man in making something with his own perseverance. Gatsby made a lot of money. Nevertheless, this didn’t change the fact that he was born into a poor household. Nick also observed how after Gatsby’s death, his wealth was insignificant. People only loved his money, not him. The events that occured in Gatsby’s life transformed Nick from a non judgmental person to a discerning