Great Gatsby Response
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” this quote from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald completely encompases the entirety of the novel of which it concludes. The meaning behind it serves its purpose as a message for the Modernist novel’s audience as well as a lesson for the intricate characters trapped in their pasts. The quote ends the novel saying that people want to reclaim an idealistic past, or a pure moment or memory, but when this desire for the past turns into an obsession, it leads to destruction. Gatsby believes throughout the whole novel that the way to attain happiness is to recreate the past. Many people strive to succeed but seem to never change. Living in the present and future
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We both have lived in our pasts which have limited our success. For example, when i was twelve years old on my soccer team i played goalie. I broke my finger and couldn't play for a couple of months. My coach told me that i wasn't going to be good enough for the team based off my first performance on the first day back. I quit travel soccer that day and didn't try out for another travel soccer team ever again. There was a long time where i had wanted to try out for the travel team but i was living in the past where i was told I wasn't good enough. I became so aware of the fact that my coach had lost faith in me that I was holding myself back. Even if i played well in a game i would tell myself that i wasn't good enough because i was living in my past thoughts. I was a boat pushing against the current, going nowhere. My cousin had a more serious example, she is 4 years older than me and suffers from obesity. She was bullied about her weight and started to believe it. She eventually stopped working out and trying to better herself and her body because she believed in the mindset that the past had given her. As a result of my cousin and I we both had mental blocks from living in the past that our goals and potential were weakened because of it. No matter how hard we tried to move past our problems, living in the past made the current too
We both have lived in our pasts which have limited our success. For example, when i was twelve years old on my soccer team i played goalie. I broke my finger and couldn't play for a couple of months. My coach told me that i wasn't going to be good enough for the team based off my first performance on the first day back. I quit travel soccer that day and didn't try out for another travel soccer team ever again. There was a long time where i had wanted to try out for the travel team but i was living in the past where i was told I wasn't good enough. I became so aware of the fact that my coach had lost faith in me that I was holding myself back. Even if i played well in a game i would tell myself that i wasn't good enough because i was living in my past thoughts. I was a boat pushing against the current, going nowhere. My cousin had a more serious example, she is 4 years older than me and suffers from obesity. She was bullied about her weight and started to believe it. She eventually stopped working out and trying to better herself and her body because she believed in the mindset that the past had given her. As a result of my cousin and I we both had mental blocks from living in the past that our goals and potential were weakened because of it. No matter how hard we tried to move past our problems, living in the past made the current too