Saturday, June 4, 2016

First Day


Here is where I end up with my students, contemplating this line, parsing its language and the meanings it suggests. Fitzgerald transformed Gatsby's tragic quest for a return to an innocent past into an observation of what it meant to be part of this vast country--suggesting Gatsby's delusion may be ours as well.   

 "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

 It may be a while before I see that line again, as today, my first day unmoored from my world as an Aitkin High School teacher, I begin living it.



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