Gatsby spent hours of his previous night at Tom’s mansion to ensure that …show more content…
Nick overviews Gatsby's desire as well as the American Dream to be “running faster, and stretching further” because they are constantly receding from their original position. In addition, the latter part of the quote gives an insight to the truth that as people attempt to achieve certain goals in the future, they are only being held back by it. Like Gatsby, people strive to reach an unattainable dream, but they'll "beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The hopes of Gatsby and people in general are evident in that we all try to achieve a better future by following elusive ideals as that of gaining wealth, power and social rank by the means of the American Dream; however, people do not realize that the dwindling future they are envisioning is not attainable, though they will keep trying, similar to