It is mostly associated with Gatsby and his hope to be with Daisy. Nick Carraway, the narrator and Gatsby’s neighbor and close friend, compares the aspirations of old, adventurous sailors as they travel to a new world, to that of Gatsby. “I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes-a fresh green breast of the new world” (Fitzgerald 180). The Dutch sailors came to this island and had nothing but opportunity. They saw it as the answer to their problems and where they could make all of their dreams come true. A place where they could be reborn and start over. Gatsby came to this place for all of the same reasons. He was looking to pursue a new life with his beloved Daisy who had been longing to reconnect with after five agonizing years. He built up all of his riches after moving to New York and started a new life across the bay from his
It is mostly associated with Gatsby and his hope to be with Daisy. Nick Carraway, the narrator and Gatsby’s neighbor and close friend, compares the aspirations of old, adventurous sailors as they travel to a new world, to that of Gatsby. “I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes-a fresh green breast of the new world” (Fitzgerald 180). The Dutch sailors came to this island and had nothing but opportunity. They saw it as the answer to their problems and where they could make all of their dreams come true. A place where they could be reborn and start over. Gatsby came to this place for all of the same reasons. He was looking to pursue a new life with his beloved Daisy who had been longing to reconnect with after five agonizing years. He built up all of his riches after moving to New York and started a new life across the bay from his