The Great Gatsby was more than a fictional story, in fact it was much more than that. It was full of hidden meanings that were relevant to the life of Fitzgerald himself. The book contains aspects of his life from dropping everything to follow his passion to his life tragedies. It also shows the light and dark side of living back in the day, the roaring twenties. Some Fitzgerald 's way of life is portrayed in the writing of the Great Gatsby through Gatsby, the symbol of the green light and the theme throughout the whole book of society and class.
On September 24, 1896 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was brought into the town of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald attended school at the Academy of St. Paul, where is first writing was recorded in a school newspaper as a detective story written when he was thirteen years old. As time went on Fitzgerald slowly dropped his studies to go pursue something much more of importance to him, his literary apprenticeship. All of the …show more content…
If you think about it green means “go” in our world. The green in the book represented the unattainable dream or future. Going back in time where Fitzgerald shared that green light toward Zelda before it became an unrealistic reality for him. Nick says in the Great Gatsby, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that is no matter- tomorrow we run farther, stretch out our arms farther….” This represented how Gatsby 's dream of Daisy was in the past, this matches up with the passing of Zelda, who in the story represented Daisy. The passing of the green light was a way Fitzgerald put Zelda in the past after admitting her into the Highland Hospital. An odd and interesting thing about Fitzgerald is before he died he always felt as he disappointed himself by not accomplishing enough throughout his life in
On September 24, 1896 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was brought into the town of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald attended school at the Academy of St. Paul, where is first writing was recorded in a school newspaper as a detective story written when he was thirteen years old. As time went on Fitzgerald slowly dropped his studies to go pursue something much more of importance to him, his literary apprenticeship. All of the …show more content…
If you think about it green means “go” in our world. The green in the book represented the unattainable dream or future. Going back in time where Fitzgerald shared that green light toward Zelda before it became an unrealistic reality for him. Nick says in the Great Gatsby, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that is no matter- tomorrow we run farther, stretch out our arms farther….” This represented how Gatsby 's dream of Daisy was in the past, this matches up with the passing of Zelda, who in the story represented Daisy. The passing of the green light was a way Fitzgerald put Zelda in the past after admitting her into the Highland Hospital. An odd and interesting thing about Fitzgerald is before he died he always felt as he disappointed himself by not accomplishing enough throughout his life in