Setting moments

Question 1

The ending of Gatsby

Answer 1

Fitzgerald’s tendency to not keep moving on but to move backwards to a better time

“Old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes - a fresh green herast of the new world”

• Hope and excitement for the New world
• Capitilism and corruption ruined it

“Gatsby believed in the green light the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”

• The belief gets further away from us
• Unattainable

“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

• Society still believes in those ideals but cannot achieve
• Tradition always wins