The Great Gatsby Green Light Analysis

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Love has no real meaning, it’s an abstract characteristic which happens to every human being at least once in their life. It’s hard to describe in words but easily understood by everyone if described with right feelings and symbols. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” shows how only a light can have an interesting impact on the book as a whole. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the green light as a symbol to illustrate Gatsby’s obsession for Daisy and the way it creates a hope for Gatsby of Daisy.

The vanishing of the persistent green light portrays how Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy

Elizabeth 's sorrow on the death of John Proctor makes an audience respect him as it creates sympathy for Proctor as he dies. “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 — to-morrow 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. (Fitzgerald 180).” According to Nick, the thing which made Gatsby happy is the hope that he will get Daisy back, he knew that “Gatsby believed in the Green light”. Nick focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past just as Gatsby did to attain Daisy. Gatsby never fulfilled his life by arriving at the green light, his unreachable dream, because he was too involved in his future to worry about his current situation. The further and further Gatsby reached, the further the green light seemed. His romantic and impractical future that he sought after became less and less likely to occur one