[Gatsby is dead. Nick Carroway - perphaps his only friend - looks out from Gatsby's house over Long Island Sound and thinks about the first Europeans that came to this shore in the sixteenth century.]
". . . gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder
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