Revenind la carte, mi s-a parut incredibil de bine scrisa, cu scene care prind viata incredibil de usor in imaginatia cititorului, iar felul in care e construita incheierea e absolut genial. In acelasi timp mi se pare foarte tare ca a cu adevarat cunoscuta si apreciata abia la mult timp dupa ce a fost scrisa, si dupa moartea lui Fitzgerald.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.