Response To The Great Gatsby

In the great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, there were so many themes, it wasn’t just a novel about romance. There were many significant themes and clues about all of them. The novel is about a young men trying to get back his old lover, it's the only thing he has left to be able to accomplish all his goals. Gatsby the main character in this novel is fighting against anything to get Daisy his lover back after five years of them not being together after he went to war. The story begins in the roaring twenties when the culture was very party culture, they had a very fun type of culture back then and a lot of that has to do with the way a lot of the characters are. The beginning of the 20’s were a new start for many because the economy was very high and it was going very well, so a lot of people become rich, there was new money and old money. This means that the old money were usually the family the descents of being rich and the new …show more content…
“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 far away” (pg. 25-26) In the novel the green light symbolizes hope, why is gatsby stretching his arms to the green light, what for? Throughout the novel I kept asking myself the green light will have a great significance and it does. Everyone has an American dream, that why so many people come to America because everyone has that American dream no matter what those dreams out we always try to reach for them. Gatsby’s house was across Daisy’s house when he reached out his arms, he was reaching out for Daisy. The green light was a representation of Daisy, so what does this mean? Daisy is Gatsby’s American dream, that is pretty much all he needs to accomplish it so he reaches his arms for her; for the green