Closing Passage

From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick's final meditation on Gatsby, the American Dream, and the inescapable pull of the past—one of the most quoted endings in American literature.
Chapter 9, final paragraphs

'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' Nick imagines the Dutch sailors' first sight of the New World and reflects on Gatsby's doomed faith in the green light.

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