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America’s Green Light

When Gatsby reached out across the bay every night, subconsciously he was reaching out for the body and mind of the Daisy he knew in 1917. This gesture of moving forward is not only used by Gatsby but by everyone is some shape or form. But what we don’t realize is that when reaching out, we are deluded, because we don’t fully understand what it is we are exactly trying to grasp. For Gatsby, this dream is back in North Dakota. But it’s not just Gatsby who believes in the green light, we all do too. And that’s how we as Americans today and Gatsby dream, for that explosion, it’s a moment of satisfaction that we anticipate, but it eludes us. Because this orgastic future that we seek today is not what’s in front of us, but what’s from the past. Yes Americans are dreamers, we dream just like Gatsby did, but we must remember that when we dream, we dream backwards.