He Mirage In The Great Gatsby

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The further and further Gatsby reached, the further the green light seemed. His romantic and impractical future that he sought after became less and less likely to occur one day, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us...
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It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further...and one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"(Gatsby 189). Gatsby just couldn't grasp the idea that Daisy would not end up with him no matter how he envisioned it or how much money he had, by now you know he is not truly rich...
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