What does this final line of The Great Gatsby mean? That depends on what you want it to mean. You can use this line to support an affirming “life goes on” perspective. Or, if you are an existentialist, you can say that it shows how pointless it is to … Read More
Category: fiction
“Only the past interests me now.”
Albert Einstein wrote that the separation between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. This idea is at play in Lisa See’s novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. The narrator is an old woman who looks back and concludes that she has waged a … Read More