The Great Gatsby Light Analysis
The light is greener on the other side
In the 1920’s or more commonly known as the Roaring Twenties new inventions, ideas, and perspectives extended across the United States. Life as Americans known it was evolving right before their very own eyes. Mankind migrating to the country out of the city, stock markets booming, music, and culture spread like love on Valentine's day. Speaking of love, love is an important part of life. Most people believe they need love or to be loved in order to survive; with regard to love, in the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a conflict of love between Daisy Buchanan, her spouse Tom Buchanan, and her long lost love Jay Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were lovers earlier in life before she met Tom. Tom is a selfish white supremacist who cheats on his wife with another woman and thinks his money opens any door. …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel Gatsby was a very mysterious man who had all of these secrets hidden away in a smile, ‘...he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness’ (Fitzgerald 1.151). This green light is a symbol but a symbol of what? This green light is a symbol of the everlasting love between Daisy and Gatsby and is mentioned various of times throughout the novel but also is shown by Jay Gatsby’s actions, words, and the way he presents himself to Daisy Buchanan. In the novel, it is said that the "single green light" on Daisy's dock that Gatsby gazes wistfully at from his own house across the water represents the "unattainable dream," (Fitzgerald 1.152). That dream is of Gatsby himself and Daisy together at last. This shows how he’s boiling over with passion about
In the 1920’s or more commonly known as the Roaring Twenties new inventions, ideas, and perspectives extended across the United States. Life as Americans known it was evolving right before their very own eyes. Mankind migrating to the country out of the city, stock markets booming, music, and culture spread like love on Valentine's day. Speaking of love, love is an important part of life. Most people believe they need love or to be loved in order to survive; with regard to love, in the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a conflict of love between Daisy Buchanan, her spouse Tom Buchanan, and her long lost love Jay Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were lovers earlier in life before she met Tom. Tom is a selfish white supremacist who cheats on his wife with another woman and thinks his money opens any door. …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel Gatsby was a very mysterious man who had all of these secrets hidden away in a smile, ‘...he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness’ (Fitzgerald 1.151). This green light is a symbol but a symbol of what? This green light is a symbol of the everlasting love between Daisy and Gatsby and is mentioned various of times throughout the novel but also is shown by Jay Gatsby’s actions, words, and the way he presents himself to Daisy Buchanan. In the novel, it is said that the "single green light" on Daisy's dock that Gatsby gazes wistfully at from his own house across the water represents the "unattainable dream," (Fitzgerald 1.152). That dream is of Gatsby himself and Daisy together at last. This shows how he’s boiling over with passion about