And One Fine Morning

Adele's Someone Like You

Gatsby had come a long way; 

his dream seemed so close 

he could hardly

fail.

But it was already behind him,

back in that 

vast obscurity beyond the city,

where the

dark fields of the republic

rolled on,

under the night.

He believed in the green light,

the orgastic

future

that year by year recedes

before us.

It eludes us, 

but tomorrow we will still

run faster, stretch farther...

And one fine morning...

Lines from Page 180.

The closing of the Great Gatsby sums up the whole idea of the story. Fitzgerald is stressing how Gatsby has been chasing a dream for years that was over long before it began. The green light is a symbol for dreams that people chase. These dreams are so close, yet still out of reach. The entire story, Gatsby felt like he was getting closer to being with Daisy, but in reality, it was never a possibility. But Gatsby, like most people, did not except this. He did everything in his power to try to achieve his goal. The line "And one fine morning..." is what people tells themselves is going to happen--we think that if we persevere, one day we will wake up and finally our dream will come true. Even though Fitzgerald makes a point that in Gatsby's case, his goal was never possible, it is human nature to "beat on."