ieves that one can obtain anything with enoughhard work. He has an optomistic belief in achievement and the ability to obtain one’sdreams. Nick connects Gatsby’s dreams with the unattainable American Dream andtime. Gatsby is struggling to recreate the past in the future. Nick speculates that justas Gatsby infused Diasy with the meaning he sought to achieve in his own life, earlyexplorers, soilders and patriots infused America with their own dreams and values. However, the time in which the dream of America could be seen as a pure symbol ofthose values is behind us. Nick looks at the green light and wonders what the the landwas like long ago when it was new and unspoiled. The green light represents the puredream Gatsby had, but the purity of the American dream is something of the past.The blue lawn reminds us that the dream is unattainable, it is blue because it is areflection of the water and therefore a constant reminder of the barrier betweenGatsby and his dreams. Nick realizes that Gatsby has the sense of unlimited promise.He possesed the American Dream. Fitzgerald ends the novel by reminding the readerthat this dream is unattainable and the American dream is something of the past. “Sowe beat on boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past” ...
