Towards the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, takes a seat alongside the late Jay Gatsby’s unoccupied mansion. He reflects upon Gatsby’s decision in choosing the receding green light used to illustrate the “orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (Fitzgerald, 180). The receding green light symbolizes Gatsby’s diminishing chances of having a future with his past love interest, Daisy Buchanan, who is the wife of Tom Buchanan.
Besides symbolism, imagery is evident in the scene when Carraway creates an analogy that Gatsby’s hope for Daisy Buchanan is like a “[boat] against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past” (Fitzgerald, 180). The boat fighting against the current
Besides symbolism, imagery is evident in the scene when Carraway creates an analogy that Gatsby’s hope for Daisy Buchanan is like a “[boat] against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past” (Fitzgerald, 180). The boat fighting against the current