Which Jazz Age novel ends with the memorable final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past?"

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic romance The Great Gatsby ends with the final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The narrator is observing that as much as people try to reinvent themselves and inform their future with their imagination, not their past, they are inevitably fated to return to the identity with which they began. The themes of optimism and melancholy are defining qualities of Fitzgerald's classic.

Which Jazz Age Novel Ends with the Memorable Final Line