Redemption In The Great Gatsby

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“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child” (187-188).

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This quotation is expressing how Nick truly feels about Tom and Daisy. He feels as if the money that they have had with them all their lives has rendered them careless and unable to act as adults. They use their money as a production, …show more content…

Though out his life Gatsby has worked so hard to achieve one single goals: to get Daisy to love him again. The one goal was ultimately who Gatsby was. All that money, the party's, and the nice things were all to get Daisy's attention “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (83). He knew that Daisy wanted to continue living that lavish lifestyle she had been accustomed to all her life. So Gatsby worked for years to build himself up to be the “perfect” man that she could not refuse. “Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now — isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him [Tom] once — but I loved you too” (139-140). At this point Gatsby thought his dream would become reality, he would get the love of his life back. But in the end that's not how it turns out. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (189). This is the part of the quote that represents Gatsby's struggles to get Daisy, and how in the end he's beach to where he started, with nothing. In this quotation, “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”

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