The Greatest Distance Distance is just a test to see how far love can travel. To some, love cannot be altered by time spent apart; true love stays no matter the circumstance. For example, in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates the use of the green light to symbolize Gatsby’s longing for Daisy. Therefore, the green light is what leads to the discovery of Gatsby’s true intentions. Not only that, but it also displays his love and hope, while showing that no matter how hard someone tries to live in the past, it will always be out of reach. This justifies the idea that one day while someone is striving for it, they will be, “borne back ceaselessly into the past,” (Fitzgerald 189). By knowing the true meaning of this symbol, it reveals
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To some, the green light is no more than just a light, but to Gatsby it’s so much more. It is the one object he can rely on and have faith in throughout the story. Each night when he gazes out past his dock he knows he will always come across it blinking. That assurance of the green light gives him hope for his future with Daisy. The importance of the green light is demonstrated throughout, but the pieces can’t be together without knowing the full story. After reading The Great Gatsby one can come to the conclusion that Gatsby uses the light as a dream; he goes to it every night and pictures him and Daisy being together one day. That idea makes sense because early on Nick sees him at the end of his dock one night and notices, “he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way,” (Fitzgerald 25). At first, we don’t quite know why Gatsby would be doing that because it seems quite odd, even Nick doesn’t know why because he saw, “nothing except a single green light,” (Fitzgerald 26). Like mentioned before, the light functions as two different meanings, for Gatsby it’s his hoping for the past, but to others it means nothing. As the story continues, Gatsby makes a comment to Daisy about the green light. He says, “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock,”
To some, the green light is no more than just a light, but to Gatsby it’s so much more. It is the one object he can rely on and have faith in throughout the story. Each night when he gazes out past his dock he knows he will always come across it blinking. That assurance of the green light gives him hope for his future with Daisy. The importance of the green light is demonstrated throughout, but the pieces can’t be together without knowing the full story. After reading The Great Gatsby one can come to the conclusion that Gatsby uses the light as a dream; he goes to it every night and pictures him and Daisy being together one day. That idea makes sense because early on Nick sees him at the end of his dock one night and notices, “he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way,” (Fitzgerald 25). At first, we don’t quite know why Gatsby would be doing that because it seems quite odd, even Nick doesn’t know why because he saw, “nothing except a single green light,” (Fitzgerald 26). Like mentioned before, the light functions as two different meanings, for Gatsby it’s his hoping for the past, but to others it means nothing. As the story continues, Gatsby makes a comment to Daisy about the green light. He says, “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock,”