The Great Gabsty Essay

         The line of “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past” define The Great Gatsby because of how hard some worked to get somewhere in life. So in order to keep on going and moving forward,they had to keep on trying. In the Great Gatsby I think Gatsby did more than the others. But at the end he pretty much did it all for nothing. But the only person who appreciated all his work was his friend Nick. But I think what the last line was trying to say was no matter how much you do something the past could still bring you back to nothing. 

          It defines The Great Gatsby  because in the end up of the book Gatsby dies. It wasn’t what he did it because someone killed him for something that happened in the past. So it’s like if he got on the boat and kept going until he get where he want to go in life. Meaning no matter how tired he gets or how hard it gets he is willing to keep going. But he pretty much ended up with nothing because of his death. So all the work he did pretty much meant nothing but it meant sometime to his friend Nick, the only person who believed in him. His friends believes that if Gatsby didn’t die he would’ve have got somewhere in life because he had everything all planned out. And also because he was different front the other people Nick knew, he was a special guy who just had it a little hard on him. 

           So this all come down to even though you don’t get somewhere where you want in life it sometime get you in a better or worse place. But if you didn’t do or try anything there’s wouldn’t have been nothing to experience in life. So Gatsby worked everyday no matter how hard it got and hoping to get somewhere each day. So I think what the last line was meant for all the characters that stayed in the book of The Great Gatsby. It was meant for them because the characters that stayed should keep on going and moveing forward and hoping that nothing takes them back in the past.