Favorite Great Gatsby Passage

Often the most profound and important revelation of a book is at the end. Such is true with F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, where nick sits thinking to himself, "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- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...." (Fitzgerald 180). What Nick is trying to say is that Gatsby was never going to be able to be satisfied with what he'd achieved. Gatsby is supposed to represent all the people trying to achieve the American dream, who think that when the reach their "goal", generally of becoming rich, they will be happy. Though Gatsby is able to become very wealthy, he still isn't happy because he wants Daisy to love him. Then when he finally does get Daisy to love him, he isn't happy because he wants Daisy to tell Tom that she "never loved him". This shows that Even though Gatsby can achieve these goals, the pleasure is temporary, and he is soon anxious about the next thing that he wants. This constant consumption and want for more is unsustainable, and thus is why Gatsby eventually gets shot and dies. Similarly, the greed and constant desire for more eventually leads from the prosper and hope of the 1920s, to the Great Depression, which is the collapse of the American dream. This was similar to the situation Fitzgerald was in, where he was always drinking despite his large amount of wealth that should've satisfied him, and supports my last post about how money doesn't but happiness.