The Green Light In The Great Gatsby Analysis

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Time can go by so fast. People find themselves regretting decisions they have made and spend time trying to correct their mistakes resulting with being caught up in the past missing all of their current opportunities. F. Scott Fitzgerald thought the idea with reference to, trying to recapture the past was a waste of time. Fitzgerald characterizes Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby as a man who focuses too much on trying to regain what he once had, but Gatsby focuses so much on Daisy and trying to regain their relationship that he never gets to have a life without her. Staying solely focused on the past blinds people from current and future opportunities. Fitzgerald uses the green light to symbolize recapturing the past throughout the book.
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Gatsby sees a marvelous, extravagant future when he see the green light he thinks of the family they could have with Daisy. Gatsby is nervous to ask Nick himself , so he asked Jordan to convince Nick to host a tea party for Gatsby and Daisy to meet. Nick agrees with the plan and ask Daisy to come to his house for tea but does not inform her that Gatsby would be attending. Gatsby is nervous for the party and afraid at how it will turn out “the front door opened nervously, and a Gatsby...hurried in. He was pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes”(84), clear that Gatsby stayed up all night going over meeting Daisy. After Gatsby talks with Nick for a while he starts getting antsy saying “he was going home”(84) in a very abrupt rude tone because he was afraid that Daisy was not going to show up and he was going to be left there and
Fitzgerald uses ample amounts of detail. He details things such as Gatsby 's parties, huge complex affaires all the way down to when Nick first spots Gatsby, a simple, small encounter. Fitzgerald uses (word I do not know right now) to describe in an extravagance and kind of boastfulness. Fitzgerald talks up Gatsby’s parties by over describing them, “...men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” repeating ‘and’ over and over give the illusion of a long list making something as simple as a party seem like a ball (39). Fitzgerald uses this again when describing the orchestra saying, “...whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums”, everytime Fitzgerald describes something about Gatsby he always makes it huge but that is to show how much Gatsby has to do to show off for Daisy who does not even know he

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