"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 ——" (Before last paragraph of The Greats Gatsby)
In this paragraph, the green light could be thought as the light in a stop light. Green means go and then by conecting it with the future, it can be infered that it has to do with going after what you want. By saying that the future eludes us, it means that with every year that passesb by, our future becomes our present. So we never trully catch up to our future but it keeps going further away from us. Gatsby wanted his future to be with Daisy so he created a whole façade to get the green light on that future. What follows talks about always wanting to reach that future and how we strive everyday to be better, that way somehow our future feels closer. The ending line of this paragraph refers to us catching up to our future but when we reach it what we trully reach is death. This is why after the word¨"morning" there is "——", to make a pause, so the author can imply that we dont know what comes next, we just know we reached our future for now.
In this paragraph, the green light could be thought as the light in a stop light. Green means go and then by conecting it with the future, it can be infered that it has to do with going after what you want. By saying that the future eludes us, it means that with every year that passesb by, our future becomes our present. So we never trully catch up to our future but it keeps going further away from us. Gatsby wanted his future to be with Daisy so he created a whole façade to get the green light on that future. What follows talks about always wanting to reach that future and how we strive everyday to be better, that way somehow our future feels closer. The ending line of this paragraph refers to us catching up to our future but when we reach it what we trully reach is death. This is why after the word¨"morning" there is "——", to make a pause, so the author can imply that we dont know what comes next, we just know we reached our future for now.
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