After watching the movie and reading the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I decided to write about the effect the ‘Green Light’ had on the story. The green light is difficult piece of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The green light is an unmistakable symbol used to show the American Dream and the failure of this dream. This green light holds all of Gatsby’s aspirations to attain the American Dream. Gatsby rose in life from having nothing to making a lot of money (through illegal means) thus he surrounds himself with material possessions in hopes to enticing his love, Daisy. I feel that that green light has many meanings. At first we believe that the American Dream was about happiness and individualism, but later we discover
