For my symbol I chose the Green Light. The Green Light in the Great Gatsby is located at the end of Daisy’s dock. The Green Light only mean something to one character in the book and that is Gatsby. The Green Light was first mention at the end of chapter one. It was when Nick first saw Gatsby. Gatsby was reaching out towards the Green Light while trembling. The Green Light represent several things to Gatsby. The Green Light represent a beacon of hope, how close Gatsby is to Daisy, and his goal or dream.
The Green Light is a beacon of hope to Gatsby. The Green Light shows him that he could change things back to the way it was before with Daisy.
The Green Light could also mean how close Gatsby is to Daisy. Although Gatsby live on West Egg and Daisy live on East Egg, the Green Light still mean how close he is to her. Gatsby like the …show more content…
The first time was in chapter one when Nick saw Gatsby for the first time. The second and third time was when Gatsby was telling Daisy about how they could see her house across the sea but there was mist so he told her about how the green light always burns at night. Daisy didn’t show any interest in the light and Gatsby had just realize that the green light was just a green light at the end of a dock. The fourth and fifth time the green light was mention was in chapter nine on the last page. The fourth time was when Nick was thinking about when did Gatsby pick out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Then the fifth time was in the first sentence of the last paragraph of the book it when it said “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . and one fine morning so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”(chapter 9, last page) In this paragraph it compared the green light to an orgastic
The Green Light is a beacon of hope to Gatsby. The Green Light shows him that he could change things back to the way it was before with Daisy.
The Green Light could also mean how close Gatsby is to Daisy. Although Gatsby live on West Egg and Daisy live on East Egg, the Green Light still mean how close he is to her. Gatsby like the …show more content…
The first time was in chapter one when Nick saw Gatsby for the first time. The second and third time was when Gatsby was telling Daisy about how they could see her house across the sea but there was mist so he told her about how the green light always burns at night. Daisy didn’t show any interest in the light and Gatsby had just realize that the green light was just a green light at the end of a dock. The fourth and fifth time the green light was mention was in chapter nine on the last page. The fourth time was when Nick was thinking about when did Gatsby pick out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Then the fifth time was in the first sentence of the last paragraph of the book it when it said “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . and one fine morning so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”(chapter 9, last page) In this paragraph it compared the green light to an orgastic