Boats+Against+the+Current+to+the+American+Dream

=//** "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." **// (Fitzgerald, 180). = = =

"He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. . . . (Fitzgerald, 110).

“The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among stars. Out of the corner of his eye, Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the **// incomparable milk of wonder //**” (Fitzgerald, 110).

"And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor's eyes -- //** a fresh, green breast of the new world. **//" (Fitzgerald, 180).

=media type="youtube" key="zGPvCzucY3E" height="315" width="560" align="right"__** Hit In The U.S.A. - Beat Crusaders **__= I've never dreamed before I'm gonna knock the door Into the world of perfect free(dom)

You're gonna say I'm lying I'm gonna get the chance I thought a chance was far from me

I was made to hit in America! I was made to hit in America! I was made to hit in America!

"No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o' clock -- until long after there was any one to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, //** paid a high price for living too long with a single dream **//" (Fitzgerald, 161).

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