Gradual faintness of green light, continuous stare of blue eyes, and persistent difference of two eggs seem to have no relationship with the entire plot of The Great Gatsby. However, these three elements are pretty important for this book, because they are used stealthily to exposure the main theme of book: The American Dream. So, in The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses three symbols: Green light, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and the comparison of two location—West egg and East egg, in order to show the American Dream. Primarily, green represents Gatsby’s pursuing. With the changing intensity of the light, Gatsby’s pursuing goes into frustration, which exposures the unreality of the American Dream. Through the whole book, the
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The green light here represents Daisy who is the girl Gatsby loves and pursues for. During his pursuing of Daisy, Gatsby seems to dim his origin goal. “ ‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay’, said Gatsby. ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock’ ” (Fitzgerald, 60). From this quotation, the green light is vague, which represents that Daisy is no longer pure as before. However, this difference between Daisy’s past and present is also the symbol of the difference between ideal and reality. Meanwhile, there is another representation of the green light: money and social statues. Green is the color of the USD (United States Dollar) and Daisy is the old rich who has high social status, so that under the attraction of the American Dream, the pursuing of green light alters to the pursuing the money and social statues, but for Gatsby, if he wants to become the old rich, he will never achieve, just because of his family background which cannot be changed since he was born. At last of the story, the green light leads Gatsby not only to his goal but also to the death with the disillusion of his dream. Thus, with the changing intensity of the light, Gatsby’s pursuing goes into frustration, which represents the unreality and fragile of the American …show more content…
In Chapter 1, author uses the sight of Nike to point out the similarity and difference of the two egg—West egg and East egg. “ To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”(Fitzgerald, 5). This means that the two regions all seems to be rich area, but actually there is a salt water between these two regions that they can never span—social statues. “ West” and “East” is a pair of antonym, so that it implies the confrontation between two classes: old rich and new rich. According to the saying of Nike, “ …West Egg, the— well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them…” (Fitzgerald, 5), the difference between old rich and new rich seems to be the common sense. The old rich people always look down upon the new rich people, because themselves are born rich, but the new rich people are not. Take Tom as an example. He once said that: “ I didn’t hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know”(Fitzgerald, 69). From this words, it is clear that Tom looks down upon the whole class of new rich instead of only Gatsby. For the new rich, they work hard to have these properties, but for the
The green light here represents Daisy who is the girl Gatsby loves and pursues for. During his pursuing of Daisy, Gatsby seems to dim his origin goal. “ ‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay’, said Gatsby. ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock’ ” (Fitzgerald, 60). From this quotation, the green light is vague, which represents that Daisy is no longer pure as before. However, this difference between Daisy’s past and present is also the symbol of the difference between ideal and reality. Meanwhile, there is another representation of the green light: money and social statues. Green is the color of the USD (United States Dollar) and Daisy is the old rich who has high social status, so that under the attraction of the American Dream, the pursuing of green light alters to the pursuing the money and social statues, but for Gatsby, if he wants to become the old rich, he will never achieve, just because of his family background which cannot be changed since he was born. At last of the story, the green light leads Gatsby not only to his goal but also to the death with the disillusion of his dream. Thus, with the changing intensity of the light, Gatsby’s pursuing goes into frustration, which represents the unreality and fragile of the American …show more content…
In Chapter 1, author uses the sight of Nike to point out the similarity and difference of the two egg—West egg and East egg. “ To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”(Fitzgerald, 5). This means that the two regions all seems to be rich area, but actually there is a salt water between these two regions that they can never span—social statues. “ West” and “East” is a pair of antonym, so that it implies the confrontation between two classes: old rich and new rich. According to the saying of Nike, “ …West Egg, the— well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them…” (Fitzgerald, 5), the difference between old rich and new rich seems to be the common sense. The old rich people always look down upon the new rich people, because themselves are born rich, but the new rich people are not. Take Tom as an example. He once said that: “ I didn’t hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know”(Fitzgerald, 69). From this words, it is clear that Tom looks down upon the whole class of new rich instead of only Gatsby. For the new rich, they work hard to have these properties, but for the