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Andis Kaulins and family in Princeton, Nebraska 1952.  This was a great time for the kids - nothing like having your own business. In my free time I used to clean and polish car windshields - lots of tips. I never had an allowance and never needed one. Even today, I can clearly remember everything inside the shop, especially the soft drinks and cigarettes, my mother's laughter, and father's voice. We had a smithy living next door, and he showed us how to forge metals. The town had 90 people, so that our freedom appeared endless. To children, the country fields needing exploration seemed to be without limit. You have to live "on the land" some and dream of big things to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald's "dark fields of the republic" in his book, The Great Gatsby. Here is what Fitzgerald wrote as the final lines to that great book, "And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Therefore, never seek to know who Gatsby was, for he represented mankind, the days of childhood, the dreams of life. To understand what Gatsby symbolized, I merely have to look at the above photograph. It represents a wondrous, distant paradise of innocence which fades constantly into the background of each of our consciousness as time takes its inevitable path, as older generations pass and as new generations come forth to populate the earth. Return to the Select Tops Index Page Select Tops Index Page |
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