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This means to stop dwelling on the past and live in the present

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Nick is saying that even though the present may suck. You have to stop focusing so much on the good ol’ days and try to move on.

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I think this quote means that everyone moves on in the end, no matter what they've been through

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I believe this means that we will always have to continue our lives and we can never live in the past. We should always live our lives to the fullest just knowing the past in the back of our minds.

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I haven't finished the book yet but to me it seems as everyone continues to live their life. We are the boats and we have to face the struggles of life which would be the currents. Our past will continue to influence our journey forward.

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Nick is trying to signify the past to dreams of the future, and also the significance of the green light

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I think the quote is about the past and how we remember it. How we will always bring it up but life will still go on.

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i think that this quotes means that future is always dependent on the past weather we want it to be or not.

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I believe this means that we, even in the present, will continue to think about the past. Nick has just lived through huge events in the past few months that everyone who has lived through this will not forget.

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The quote that Nick is saying is live on the present and row to the future don’t crumble to the past like Gatsby did

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This means that your life will effect you when you make decisions and in the future you will be holding on to things from the past affecting your life.

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This quote means that people will face diversity in their life and it will carry along with them to point that in the future they will be holding on to what happen.

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Nick is saying no matter what happens, life goes on and we gotta go with it. But its good to think upon the past and remember it

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I think the quote means that your past shapes you as a person and can influence you as you move on with your life’s

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The past will effect the way we act in the future even if you try to go back and fix the mistakes you made

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I think that means the past effects us. Boats against the current. Your pushing against something. But life will go on.

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This quote means we go on with life, but it is an uphill battle (or against the current). And we inevitably repeat the past and wish to go back to past memories.

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Nick is saying that the past still shapes us no matter how careless or reckless. Gatsbys dream shaped him in this illusion that got him killed. It started over the water, with the green light. It ended

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I think It is supposed to reflect the desire to back to the past, but it won't be the same. That idea is reflected throughout the story

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This means that even in the present we reflect on the past. We fight to remember things institutionally because our pasts are what shapes our future. Sometime it is to show us our mistakes and not to do them again or in other times it tells you to try something again despite it's previous failure. It depends on who you are as a person to decipher what the past is telling you in the future. Nick, Gatsby and the other characters each perceive the past differently. Gatsby tried again with Daisy instead of living his life differently. Nick uses his fathers words to teach him not to be judgemental .

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This is a nautical metaphor. It's all about how Gatsby wants to cross over to Daisy's house, aka: the green light. But he's always pushed back by the current, aka: the social climb. It shows the reality of the situation. No matter how much success Gatsby has, he will never truly be accepted. This seems like a bummer, but it also has a sort of happy ending. Gatsby might know that deep down he will never reach Daisy, but it doesn't stop him from trying.

Don't we all, at times, strive for this dream? To be accepted?