The Great Gatsby Ending

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was very much alive for him. He cared more for the dream than he did for truth. During his life while the dream was still very much alive, the grass was cared for attentively just as his goals were cared for
attentively. After his death, the grass had no one to care for it just like the dream.
The grass was just as long and uncared for as Nick's symbolic that Gatsby's
dream was just as dead to him now as the dream had been dead to Nick. Both the grass and the dream were just as alive as they were dead in that though
Gatsby could no longer care for either one during his death, there would always
be someone else to carry on the dream, and a new resident in the house to cut
the grass.
"I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the
music and the laughter faint and incessant from his garden and the cars
going up and down his drive. One night I did hear a material car there and ...

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failure of a house", one could change the words around and say "huge incoherent failure of a dream" to mean
that the dream was too vast, too difficult to accomplish. On Nick's last night to change his mind before he deletes the dream from his life, he takes a long look at what's left of the dream, and the house.
"Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor's eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new ...

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