The Roaring Twenties occurred from 1920 to 1929 (History.com Staff). The Roaring Twenties occurred after the World War I (Zetiz). The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells a tragic love story that shows the pessimistic critique of the American Dream. To portray the defective nature of the American Dream, Fitzgerald implements symbols of the green light, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and the valley of ashes.
In reference to The Great Gatsby, the green light symbolizes hope. “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— —” (Fitzgerald, 193). This piece of evidence symbolizes Nick’s concluding thought of Gatsby - a person that believed in “the green light, the orgastic future” that he could not have ever attained had he lived in the end. This last picture shows you the defective nature of the American Dream using the green light as a symbol. …show more content…
Eckleburg symbolizes a potential higher authority that looks over the destruction and corruption in the valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby. “That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away (Fitzgerald, 132).” The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg stare at the devastation that the capitalism has made. These eyes are the eyes that look over the defective nature of the American Dream, in a sense, but cannot do anything about the corruption due to the fact that the eyes are
In reference to The Great Gatsby, the green light symbolizes hope. “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— —” (Fitzgerald, 193). This piece of evidence symbolizes Nick’s concluding thought of Gatsby - a person that believed in “the green light, the orgastic future” that he could not have ever attained had he lived in the end. This last picture shows you the defective nature of the American Dream using the green light as a symbol. …show more content…
Eckleburg symbolizes a potential higher authority that looks over the destruction and corruption in the valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby. “That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away (Fitzgerald, 132).” The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg stare at the devastation that the capitalism has made. These eyes are the eyes that look over the defective nature of the American Dream, in a sense, but cannot do anything about the corruption due to the fact that the eyes are