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9389740 No.9389740 [Reply] [Original]

>So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the poop.

Wow F Scott. This was a really well written novel until this last line here.

>> No.9389743

The last line doesn't even make much sense and is seemingly nonsensical in relation to the rest of the novel.

I don't know why it's famous, frankly. At least the opening paragraph was relevant to the text.

>> No.9389750

>>9389740

I gathered that Gatsby was stuck in the past and building up his possible union with Daisy into some amazing thing that, right when it looked like he would he able to achieve it, he was forced away from his goal (purposefully vague here to avoid spoiler). But yeah it was an unsatisfying final line. A car metaphor might have worked better or even a jazz music metaphor, but not a boat one especially there weren't any boats in the book so far as I remember)

>> No.9389957

>>9389743
Are you memeing? It's about nostalgia, which is incredibly important to the text.

>> No.9389966
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9389966

>"Man becomes used to everything; the freaking retard!"

How to get me to stop reading in one simple sentence.

>> No.9389993

>>9389957
It's not important to the text at all, unless you mean "nostalgia for that which one never experienced." Jay never had Daisy.

>> No.9390068

>>9389993
It is, and I do.

>> No.9390076

>>9390068
One cannot have nostalgia for that which they never experienced. It's a sham.

See: Ignorance by Milan Kundera.

>> No.9390127

>>9389750
Daisy's light is on a shore, that's how the metaphor works