The Great Gatsby Last Line Analysis

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In the ending sentence of The Great Gatsby, Nick sums up the novel with this one last line, leaving the reader to go back to their mundane life. By itself the line is quite beautiful, written in a poetic way, with its B alliteration. The sentence itself uses a metaphor, boats that row against the current. Fitzgerald may be making a statement about how we as people tend to be like these boats and move against this flowing current that only pushes us backwards to where we started. Stating in more simple terms that we as the people of America are moving toward the past instead of the future. We are an optimistic group of people, however, throughout time no matter how persistent at moving towards the future, the past will always come and weigh