beeeep.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." p. 115

anyone else bummed that Nick and Jordan never get together? I am. I sorta wanted them - ANYONE - to be happy at the end. I mean, Tom has no one. Gatsby's dead. Daisy's with Tom, but not really. Jordan's got a man, but with the way relationships go in this book, I don't see that lasting long. good thing the book ends before anything bad happens.

ANYWAY.

If this quote isn't the quote referenced in the opening line of the book, I'd rather like to think that it is anyway. please don't correct me unless it's vital to my understanding of the work as a whole. also, it fits quite nicely into the whole "I'm on a path trying to figure stuff out" theme I established in my first blog. I think it's a beautifully haunting quote. nice imagery, too.

I haven't decided if I like this novel yet or not, but I've gotta give props to Fitzgerald: it's very well written.